The temperature on October 5, 1928 was between 2.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (65%). 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.
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.
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 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Day of death March 19, 1999
The temperature on March 19, 1999 was between 2.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
March 21 » Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
April 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
November 26 » The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
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