The temperature on March 20, 1909 was between 4.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
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 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
Day of death March 23, 1909
The temperature on March 23, 1909 was between 2.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
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.
April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
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