The temperature on February 20, 1909 was between -2.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage January 19, 1932
The temperature on January 19, 1932 was between 0.3 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 18 » The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
May 4 » In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
July 30 » Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
September 29 » Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
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