The temperature on May 20, 1909 was between 5.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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.
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 March 24, 1993
The average temperature on March 24, 1993 was 5.3 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 18 » Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
March 11 » Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
May 24 » Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
September 9 » Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
December 7 » Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
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