The temperature on April 4, 1909 was between -2.9 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of death October 30, 2000
The temperature on October 30, 2000 was between 7.9 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
October 26 » The Sony PlayStation 2 is launched in North American markets with 27 launch titles.
November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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