The temperature on March 19, 1927 was between 2.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
Day of marriage May 16, 1946
The temperature on May 16, 1946 was between -0.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 22 » In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
February 8 » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
May 7 » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
September 8 » The referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.
December 9 » The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
Day of death June 11, 2001
The temperature on June 11, 2001 was between 6.3 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
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