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Events on Thursday 31 May 1928 1
1928First trans-Pacific flightThe Southern Cross flies from California to AustraliaCharles Kingsford Smith and his crew flew the Fokker monoplane Southern Cross from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, stopping in Hawaii and Fiji. It was the first flight across the Pacific. The journey covered about 11,600 kilometres.