February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage February 24, 1927
The temperature on February 24, 1927 was between 2.0 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
Day of death October 5, 1987
The temperature on October 5, 1987 was between 9.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south 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 20 » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
July 31 » A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Canada.
September 2 » In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
October 1 » The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
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