The temperature on January 30, 1909 was between -0.8 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
Day of death January 28, 2000
The temperature on January 28, 2000 was between -0.4 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
July 17 » During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
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