The temperature on December 27, 1926 was between -3.8 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of marriage March 27, 1956
The temperature on March 27, 1956 was between 4.1 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
January 28 » Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
May 1 » A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
November 12 » In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
December 6 » A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
December 28 » Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
Day of death January 31, 1999
The temperature on January 31, 1999 was between -4.8 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
October 22 » Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
November 30 » In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
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