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 ].
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas set the record for the warmest summer in the U.S. The average summer temperature of Oklahoma and Texas was at 86.5 degrees F and 86.8 degrees F, respectively, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.