The temperature on December 14, 1909 was between -2.0 and 2.2 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of death April 17, 1911
The temperature on April 17, 1911 was between 0.2 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
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