The temperature on December 1, 1927 was between 0.5 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Day of marriage May 22, 1947
The temperature on May 22, 1947 was between 8.1 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
December 30 » Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
Day of death August 9, 1983
The temperature on August 9, 1983 was between 15.3 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
September 19 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
September 27 » Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
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