The temperature on February 22, 1928 was between -2.4 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of marriage June 7, 1952
The temperature on June 7, 1952 was between 6.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
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