The temperature on January 15, 1909 was between 0.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage July 21, 1934
The temperature on July 21, 1934 was between 15.0 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
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