The temperature on June 22, 1909 was between 10.1 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
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.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
Day of death November 7, 1955
The temperature on November 7, 1955 was between 9.1 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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