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 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
Day of marriage May 7, 1927
The temperature on May 7, 1927 was between 9.8 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Day of death October 21, 1976
The temperature on October 21, 1976 was between 7.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
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