The temperature on April 18, 1928 was between -1.0 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
Day of marriage December 19, 1953
The temperature on December 19, 1953 was between 0.4 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 9.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
Day of death June 23, 2009
The temperature on June 23, 2009 was between 7.5 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
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 20 » Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
October 28 » The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
November 23 » The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines.
November 27 » Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
December 3 » A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
December 30 » A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
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