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 ].
Summer 2016 was the hottest on record in 45 U.S. locations, according to preliminary data compiled late last week by the Southeast Regional Climate Center. The majority of the cities sweltering through a record hot summer were in the East, from the eastern Great Lakes and New England to the Appalachians and Southeast, including Florida.