The temperature on February 8, 1909 was between -5.5 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
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.
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 death February 21, 1996
The temperature on February 21, 1996 was between -6.5 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -4 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (92%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 23 » Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
April 28 » Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
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