The temperature on February 27, 1927 was between 7.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 13.5 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Day of death June 22, 2000
The temperature on June 22, 2000 was between 13.4 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
September 10 » Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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