The temperature on October 19, 1927 was between 4.8 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
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.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
Day of marriage May 26, 1952
The temperature on May 26, 1952 was between 10.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
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