March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
Day of marriage July 2, 1927
The temperature on July 2, 1927 was between 10.2 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
Day of death December 9, 1981
The temperature on December 9, 1981 was between -1.2 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1⁄2 million units around the world.
April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
May 21 » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
September 25 » Belize joins the United Nations.
December 19 » Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
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