March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage October 2, 1909
The temperature on October 2, 1909 was between 5.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
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.
August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of death May 30, 1964
The temperature on May 30, 1964 was between 12.5 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 5 » The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
May 29 » The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
June 12 » Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
October 16 » Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
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