January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of marriage November 14, 1960
The temperature on November 14, 1960 was between 5.6 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
June 23 » The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
October 29 » An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.
Day of death February 27, 1978
The temperature on February 27, 1978 was between 7.5 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
July 7 » The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
July 25 » Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
October 8 » Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
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