The temperature on August 5, 1909 was between 8.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
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.
August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
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.
Day of death May 19, 1910
The temperature on May 19, 1910 was between 13.9 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
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