The temperature on September 27, 1911 was between 4.7 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
Day of death July 27, 1975
The temperature on July 27, 1975 was between 11.8 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
May 27 » Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
August 4 » The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
September 4 » The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
November 11 » Independence of Angola.
December 26 » Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach2, went into service.
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