The temperature on December 26, 1928 was between 4.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 17.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
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 death October 23, 2001
The temperature on October 23, 2001 was between 8.1 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
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