The temperature on December 10, 1909 was between -1.1 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
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.
Christening day January 1, 1909
The temperature on January 1, 1909 was between -6.7 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
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 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Day of marriage October 25, 1944
The temperature on October 25, 1944 was between 5.3 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
April 17 » Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
August 12 » Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
Day of death September 3, 1991
The temperature on September 3, 1991 was between 12.7 °C and 30.1 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 7 » Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
August 16 » Indian Airlines Flight 257, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.
August 24 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 11 » Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
December 4 » Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
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