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
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
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 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
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 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
September 26 » Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
October 30 » The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.
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