The temperature on June 4, 1927 was between 4.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Day of marriage April 6, 1957
The temperature on April 6, 1957 was between 5.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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