The temperature on January 21, 1928 was between 3.4 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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".
June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
Day of death April 8, 2013
The temperature on April 8, 2013 was between -0.3 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (66%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
February 27 » A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
April 24 » A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
May 30 » Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
June 5 » A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.
June 26 » Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
September 6 » It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.
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