The temperature on February 10, 1909 was between -0.3 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
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.
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 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Day of marriage August 5, 1937
The temperature on August 5, 1937 was between 10.7 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
Day of death April 30, 1960
The temperature on April 30, 1960 was between 0.2 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
April 26 » Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
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