The temperature on December 18, 1928 was between -2.6 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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).
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
Day of death August 25, 2012
The temperature on August 25, 2012 was between 15.3 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
May 9 » A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
October 9 » Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
November 15 » Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
December 11 » At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
December 29 » A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
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