The temperature on May 8, 1909 was between 2.2 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
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.
Day of death August 22, 1958
The temperature on August 22, 1958 was between 13.8 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
September 15 » A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
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