The temperature on September 21, 1909 was between 6.2 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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 October 8, 1966
The temperature on October 8, 1966 was between 9.4 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
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