The temperature on July 30, 1909 was between 11.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 15.0 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
Day of death August 5, 1942
The temperature on August 5, 1942 was between 9.1 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 18 » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.
November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
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