The temperature on October 6, 1928 was between 9.2 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
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 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
Day of marriage September 23, 1954
The temperature on September 23, 1954 was between 4.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
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.
August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
Day of death October 14, 2007
The temperature on October 14, 2007 was between 4.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 3 » A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
February 27 » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
April 16 » Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
June 29 » Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
July 10 » Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
August 15 » An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
Day of burial October 18, 2007
The temperature on October 18, 2007 was between 6.0 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 4 » The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
March 14 » The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
June 29 » Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
July 7 » The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
July 31 » Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
October 10 » Team Fortress 2 is released by Valve Corporation
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