The temperature on January 23, 1909 was between -6.6 °C and -1 °C and averaged -4.5 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of marriage May 27, 1936
The temperature on May 27, 1936 was between 9.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
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