The temperature on October 16, 1927 was between 2.2 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Day of marriage March 5, 1959
The temperature on March 5, 1959 was between 5.7 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
February 28 » Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
Day of death July 20, 2001
The temperature on July 20, 2001 was between 8.9 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 16 » India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
October 4 » Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
December 13 » Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
Day of burial July 26, 2001
The temperature on July 26, 2001 was between 14.3 °C and 28.0 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
July 24 » The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
November 13 » War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
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