The career of Indian classical music in the western world began roughly three years later, when George Harrison, alerted to Ravi Shankar's virtuosity by the Byrds, took a short crash course in the sitar from the Indian musician.
In 1911, the first permanent weather station was established at what is now Furnace Creek Ranch. On July 10, 1913, the weather station measured a record high of 134 F (57 C), a temperature that has not been beat anywhere in the United States since. [Related: The Harshest Environments on Earth ].
The hottest surface temperature ever recorded on Earth was recorded in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913. The high that day reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit (or 56.7 degrees Celsius)! Death Valley is part of the Mojave Desert, which, along with the Sonoran desert, form one of the hottest deserts in the world.