The temperature on June 2, 1909 was between 9.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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 October 5, 1938
The temperature on October 5, 1938 was between 7.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 18.3 mm of rain during 9.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Day of death March 26, 1965
The temperature on March 26, 1965 was between 5.0 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
February 20 » Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
June 9 » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
September 22 » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
November 11 » Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia
December 9 » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
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