The temperature on February 8, 1904 was between -1.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of marriage June 9, 1927
The temperature on June 9, 1927 was between 3.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
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 May 27, 1981
The temperature on May 27, 1981 was between 5.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
February 24 » The 6.7 Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812million.
March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
June 11 » A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
July 29 » A worldwide television audience of over 700million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
December 18 » First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
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