The temperature on May 6, 1927 was between 11.0 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
Day of marriage May 17, 1957
The temperature on May 17, 1957 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 25 » The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
Day of death October 12, 1988
The temperature on October 12, 1988 was between 9.4 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.
December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.
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