January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of marriage August 10, 1927
The temperature on August 10, 1927 was between 12.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
Day of death January 17, 1937
The temperature on January 17, 1937 was between -0.4 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
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