The temperature on May 4, 1928 was between 8.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 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.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
Day of marriage May 11, 1957
The temperature on May 11, 1957 was between 6.6 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
Day of death November 2, 2011
The temperature on November 2, 2011 was between 9.7 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 27 » Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
February 22 » New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
March 12 » A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
April 27 » The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
July 21 » NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
July 30 » Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
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