The temperature on May 20, 1928 was between 2.7 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
Day of death October 12, 1993
The temperature on October 12, 1993 was between 11.9 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 » The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
January 19 » Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
August 31 » Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
December 7 » Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
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