The temperature on December 17, 1927 was between -13.9 °C and -3.6 °C and averaged -8.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
Day of death December 15, 1993
The temperature on December 15, 1993 was between 0.5 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
June 12 » An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
November 1 » The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
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