The temperature on March 15, 1928 was between -1.1 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of marriage May 23, 1958
The temperature on May 23, 1958 was between 9.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 19 » The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
Day of death August 9, 2002
The temperature on August 9, 2002 was between 13.3 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 12 » The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
April 26 » Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
May 7 » A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
May 9 » The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
September 10 » Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
December 23 » A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.
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