The temperature on October 8, 1928 was between 9.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of death August 3, 1991
The temperature on August 3, 1991 was between 13.9 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 20 » Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
May 28 » The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
June 27 » Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
October 7 » Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
October 8 » Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
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