The temperature on October 19, 1909 was between 9.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage May 28, 1936
The temperature on May 28, 1936 was between 7.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
September 9 » The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRPAfonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
Day of death July 9, 1971
The temperature on July 9, 1971 was between 14.3 °C and 29.5 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
May 31 » In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
July 30 » An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
November 6 » The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
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