The temperature on April 17, 1927 was between 1.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
Day of death March 11, 2008
The temperature on March 11, 2008 was between 4.9 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 24 » Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa
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