January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
Day of marriage August 13, 1927
The temperature on August 13, 1927 was between 12.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
Day of death October 1, 1988
The temperature on October 1, 1988 was between 1.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
August 10 » Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
October 5 » A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
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