The temperature on March 9, 1909 was between -3.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
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.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
Day of death May 17, 1911
The temperature on May 17, 1911 was between 11.6 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
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