The temperature on February 3, 1928 was between -0.6 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
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).
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
Day of marriage July 9, 1954
The temperature on July 9, 1954 was between 8.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
Day of death July 26, 2005
The temperature on July 26, 2005 was between 13.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 6 » A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
August 14 » Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
August 16 » West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
October 22 » Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
December 6 » An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
Day of burial July 30, 2005
The temperature on July 30, 2005 was between 14.6 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 37.8 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 21 » In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
March 3 » James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
March 3 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
July 20 » The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.
August 18 » A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
December 3 » XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
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