The temperature on July 16, 1927 was between 10.9 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
Day of death October 31, 1995
The temperature on October 31, 1995 was between 0.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
January 25 » The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
May 24 » While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
July 6 » In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
October 6 » The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
November 12 » Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.
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