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
7 March 2021 Today is this year's day number 65. We are in week 09, and have 300 days left of 2021.
At this day in history:
322 BC
Aristotle, Greek philosopher and biologist (b. 384 BC) died.
189
Publius Septimius geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211) was born.
1274
St. Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher and scholar (b. 1225) died.
1693
Clement XIII (d. 1769) was born.
1746
André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802) was born.
1792
John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871) was born.
1798
The French army enters Rome. This is referred to as the beginning of the Roman Republic. .
1799
Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and kill more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1837
Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882) was born.
1849
Luther Burbank, American biologist and botanists (d. 1926) was born.
1872
Piet Mondrian, Dutch templates (d. 1944) was born.
1875
Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) was born.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell get a patent on an invention he calls the "phone".
1904
Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian skater (d. 1969) was born.
1904
Reinhard Heydrich, German officer SS (d. 1942) was born.
1908
Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973) was born.
1911
Revolution breaks out in Mexico.
1912
Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition reached the South Pole, although they had actually reached the Pole on 14 December 1911.
1918
First World War: Finland allied with Germany.
1936
World War II: Germany occupies the Rhineland and violates both Locarnopakten and the Treaty of Versailles.
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.
1. Rauma Åndalsnes attended with both troop and rover team on the national scout jamboree in Eidskog in 1993. The camp gathered about 14,000 participants at Ingelsrud farm, the place that would later become NSF's camp site.
