The temperature on January 9, 1909 was between -1.6 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
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.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
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.
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 March 30, 1953
The temperature on March 30, 1953 was between 6.1 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
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