The temperature on March 28, 1909 was between 1.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
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.
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
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.
Day of marriage June 29, 1932
The temperature on June 29, 1932 was between 10.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
February 18 » The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
November 24 » In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
December 25 » A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
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