January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of marriage February 28, 1928
The temperature on February 28, 1928 was between 0.7 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
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