The temperature on October 15, 1909 was between 7.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
Day of death February 16, 1967
The temperature on February 16, 1967 was between -0.2 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
April 24 » Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
June 26 » Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
November 15 » The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
November 28 » The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
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