The temperature on September 4, 1928 was between 8.2 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
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).
August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
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 marriage December 15, 1947
The temperature on December 15, 1947 was between -2.0 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
Day of death May 12, 2008
The temperature on May 12, 2008 was between 10.8 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
April 8 » The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
September 11 » A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
November 27 » XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
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