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
18 May 2021 Today is this year's day number 137. We are in week 20, and have 228 days left of 2021.
At this day in history:
1652
Rhode Island approves the first law in North America that prohibits slavery.
1765
A fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
1804
Napoleon Bonaparte is appointed Emperor of the French Senate.
1900
Britain declares a protectorate over Tonga.
1910
Earth passes through the tail of Halley.
1920
John Paul II (d. 2005) was born.
1940
Former Hurtigrute ship D / S Sirius lowered outside Dyrøy in Oslo. 7 killed. .
1944
World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces conqueror place after battles that claimed 20,000 lives.
1966
Bent Skammelsrud, Norwegian footballer was born.
1977
Bjarne Solbakken, Norwegian skier was born.
1980
An explosive volcanic eruption in Mount St. Helens, United States, killing 57 people.
1980
Ian Curtis, British musician (Joy Division), (b. 1956) died.
1982
Eric West, American singer was born.
1985
Israeli forces bombard the headquarters of the Norwegian UN force in Lebanon.
5th - 12th August 1989 18,500 scouts from home and abroad gathered to national scout jamboree on the fields to the crown prince at Skaugum and made them into a mud sea. Seldom had it rained that much in a summer week in Asker. I attended camp with my group, 1st Rauma Åndalsnes.
