January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
Day of marriage October 17, 1928
The temperature on October 17, 1928 was between 8.4 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
Day of death April 9, 1988
The temperature on April 9, 1988 was between -1.7 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
August 21 » The 6.9 Mw Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
Day of burial April 12, 1988
The temperature on April 12, 1988 was between 2.0 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
July 3 » The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
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