The temperature on December 5, 1909 was between 1.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
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 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Day of marriage November 22, 1934
The temperature on November 22, 1934 was between -5.0 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
Day of death September 17, 1999
The temperature on September 17, 1999 was between 10.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
October 27 » Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
December 21 » The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
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