The temperature on April 13, 1909 was between 5.5 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
Day of death August 24, 1909
The temperature on August 24, 1909 was between 13.7 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
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.
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