The temperature on July 22, 1928 was between 6.2 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
Day of marriage July 29, 1954
The temperature on July 29, 1954 was between 12.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
Day of death February 17, 2014
The temperature on February 17, 2014 was between 0.3 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 2 » A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
August 20 » Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
September 18 » Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
October 14 » The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
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