The temperature on January 1, 1909 was between -6.4 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
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.
Day of marriage April 16, 1941
The temperature on April 16, 1941 was between -1.1 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
February 23 » Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
August 14 » World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
October 22 » World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
December 15 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
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