The temperature on July 22, 1928 was between 7.0 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
Day of marriage February 17, 1947
The temperature on February 17, 1947 was between -11.3 °C and -2.8 °C and averaged -6.8 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
Day of death February 20, 2005
The average temperature on February 20, 2005 was 2.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 6 » American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
January 21 » In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
August 16 » West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
August 19 » The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
September 12 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
December 7 » Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
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