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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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 African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
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