The temperature on September 10, 1928 was between 12.5 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
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 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Day of death March 9, 2004
The temperature on March 9, 2004 was between -0.1 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
August 17 » The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
September 23 » Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
November 11 » New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
November 27 » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
December 25 » The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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