The temperature on February 9, 1928 was between 5.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Day of death January 6, 2018
The temperature on January 6, 2018 was between 2.2 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
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