The temperature on March 12, 1928 was between -6.0 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of death February 5, 1980
The temperature on February 5, 1980 was between 4.3 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 15.7 mm of rain during 9.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
August 27 » A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
September 22 » Iraq invades Iran.
October 2 » Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
October 10 » The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
December 1 » Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.
Day of burial February 9, 1980
The temperature on February 9, 1980 was between 5.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 21 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
April 2 » United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
April 18 » The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
August 1 » A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
December 24 » Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
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