The temperature on May 16, 1928 was between 1.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Day of marriage March 16, 1949
The temperature on March 16, 1949 was between 1.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 3 » The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
December 29 » KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
Day of death July 13, 2007
The temperature on July 13, 2007 was between 16.9 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 27 » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
April 27 » Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
June 13 » The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
September 24 » Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
December 13 » The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of the European Union.
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