The temperature on April 28, 1928 was between 10.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of death January 8, 2004
The temperature on January 8, 2004 was between 3.8 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 8 » The RMSQueen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
February 12 » The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
March 2 » War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
June 8 » The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
June 11 » Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
December 26 » The 9.1–9.3 Mw Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting the coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is estimated at 227,898.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Elizabeth Sobon, "Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dagosto-dimirra-weckerle-kuhn-family-tree/P3878.php : accessed June 15, 2024), "Merlin Albert Magerkurth (1928-2004)".
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