The temperature on October 9, 1928 was between 9.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
Day of death March 5, 1997
The temperature on March 5, 1997 was between 5.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
February 22 » In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
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