The temperature on July 27, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
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 death July 21, 2001
The temperature on July 21, 2001 was between 8.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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