The temperature on November 14, 1909 was between -0.9 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of death August 3, 1911
The temperature on August 3, 1911 was between 13.6 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
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