The temperature on October 24, 1909 was between 6.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage May 27, 1935
The temperature on May 27, 1935 was between 11.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
March 21 » Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
March 23 » Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
Day of death May 20, 2000
The temperature on May 20, 2000 was between 5.4 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
November 9 » Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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