The temperature on June 26, 1910 was between 9.4 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Day of death February 18, 1911
The temperature on February 18, 1911 was between 7.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
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