Friday, June 13, 1952, a DC-3 takes off from Bromma airport. On board are eight people on a top secret operation. The plane never returns and remains gone for over 50 years.
Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city in Germany. The city has a lot to offer; From the top of the Main Tower there is a wonderful view of the city and in the Frankfurt Zoo you can meet around 450 different species of animals.
Behind the locked steel door in a backyard at Torshov in Oslo you will find the emergency communication center. From this premises the telephone communication would be secured in event of war or enemy sabotage.
Today
20 October 2020 Today is this year's day number 293. We are in week 43, and have 73 days left of 2020.
At this day in history:
Bahá'í - Holiday - Birthday of the birthday.
1740
Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuses to accept the so-called pragmatic sanction and the Austrian succession war begins. .
1781
Limited freedom of religion was enshrined in the monarchy Habsburg.
1803
US Senate ratifserer purchase of Louisiana.
1814
Union with Sweden adopted.
1819
Báb, prophet of the religion Bahá'í (d. 1850) was born.
1827
Battle of Navarino - a collapsed Turkish and Egyptian army is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian navy at the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The main outcome of this battle is the end of the Greek War of Independence and g.
1859
John Dewey, American philosopher (1952) was born.
1882
Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (1956) was born.
1883
Peru and Chile signed the ceasefire in Ancón, where the province of Tarapaca was ceded to the latter, which put an end to Peru's involvement in the Pacific War.
1889
Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965) was born.
1890
Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist (d. 1941) was born.
1891
James Chadwick, English Physicist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 1974) was born.
1891
Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978) was born.
1895
Hans Reidar Holtermann, Norwegian officer, "Major from Hegra" (d. 1966) was born.
1903
Border between Alaska and Canada are established.
1904
Pacific War between Bolivia and Chile ends. .
1905
General Strike paralyzes Russia.
1910
The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister ship of the RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.
I have been with Nordic Crane Bull at work as they should lift 4 lifts on board Color Magic. Two cranes of 44 and 60 meters were needed to get the four lifts lifted on board before the boat had to leave the dock en route to Kiel. The highest lift was to deck 14. From there there was a nice view of Oslo and the Oslo fjord.
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