The temperature on March 6, 1928 was between -4.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
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.
Day of death September 23, 1997
The temperature on September 23, 1997 was between 6.1 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
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February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
Day of cremation September 26, 1997
The temperature on September 26, 1997 was between 9.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
June 10 » Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
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