The temperature on April 7, 1909 was between 1.0 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
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.
Day of death December 14, 1936
The temperature on December 14, 1936 was between 0.1 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
April 15 » First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
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