The temperature on June 3, 1909 was between 8.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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.
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 death September 23, 1955
The temperature on September 23, 1955 was between 14.6 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Day of burial September 26, 1955
The temperature on September 26, 1955 was between 7.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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