The temperature on May 4, 1909 was between 1.5 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
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