The temperature on March 22, 1909 was between 5.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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 death October 15, 1987
The temperature on October 15, 1987 was between 11.1 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 18.9 mm of rain during 11.9 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
July 29 » Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
November 22 » Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
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