The temperature on February 2, 1909 was between -3.5 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of death May 28, 1988
The temperature on May 28, 1988 was between 11.8 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
November 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
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