The temperature on September 22, 1909 was between 7.4 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
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.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
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.
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 marriage January 23, 1936
The temperature on January 23, 1936 was between 0.7 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Day of death September 9, 1956
The temperature on September 9, 1956 was between 8.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
May 24 » The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
November 1 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
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