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.
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of marriage May 8, 1935
The temperature on May 8, 1935 was between 6.7 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
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