The temperature on August 17, 1928 was between 8.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of marriage January 16, 1957
The temperature on January 16, 1957 was between -2.3 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 9 » British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
January 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
Day of death August 12, 1999
The temperature on August 12, 1999 was between 8.5 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
April 19 » The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
September 14 » Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
Day of burial August 15, 1999
The temperature on August 15, 1999 was between 12.1 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
November 19 » Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
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