The temperature on November 2, 1909 was between 6.9 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Day of marriage March 5, 1941
The temperature on March 5, 1941 was between 0.8 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 2 » World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
March 15 » Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
April 27 » World War II: German troops enter Athens.
May 6 » At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
July 6 » The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
Day of death January 31, 1961
The temperature on January 31, 1961 was between 5.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 15 » Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
Day of burial February 2, 1961
The temperature on February 2, 1961 was between 0.6 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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