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 WMO assessment is that the highest recorded surface temperature of 56.7 Â°C (134 Â°F) was measured on 10 July 1913 at 46 Greenland Ranch (Death Valley) CA USA.