The temperature on April 26, 1909 was between 6.4 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage May 4, 1938
The temperature on May 4, 1938 was between 3.9 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
Day of death September 8, 1967
The temperature on September 8, 1967 was between 3.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
May 17 » Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
May 27 » The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSJohn F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
November 11 » Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
November 15 » The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
November 19 » The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
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