The temperature on December 16, 1928 was between -3.6 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Day of death August 16, 1991
The temperature on August 16, 1991 was between 11.8 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 5 » Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
January 16 » Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
August 21 » Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
October 11 » Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
October 16 » George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
December 25 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
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