The temperature on June 5, 1909 was between 6.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
Day of death April 19, 1956
The temperature on April 19, 1956 was between 0.3 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
January 26 » Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
June 29 » The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
September 25 » TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
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