The temperature on October 7, 1928 was between 7.6 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Day of death May 21, 1943
The temperature on May 21, 1943 was between 10.3 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 14 » World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
May 11 » World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
May 16 » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
November 19 » Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
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