The temperature on March 5, 1928 was between -3.6 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
Day of death November 24, 2000
The temperature on November 24, 2000 was between 4.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
Day of burial November 28, 2000
The temperature on November 28, 2000 was between 7.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
September 10 » Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
October 31 » Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
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