The temperature on July 30, 1909 was between 11.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 15.0 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
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.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
Day of marriage September 9, 1943
The temperature on September 9, 1943 was between 5.4 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 24 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
June 20 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
October 14 » World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans.
Day of death May 5, 2008
The temperature on May 5, 2008 was between 8.3 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
March 19 » GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
May 28 » The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
August 8 » A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
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