The temperature on August 11, 1928 was between 12.1 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
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 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
Day of death November 18, 1954
The temperature on November 18, 1954 was between 0.6 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
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