The temperature on January 31, 1909 was between -0.9 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of death March 8, 1999
The temperature on March 8, 1999 was between 3.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
March 21 » Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
November 19 » Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
December 26 » The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
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