2013 Event In Greenland. a canyon over 800km long is discovered up to 800m deep in different places below the ice sheet covering the country; the canyon is longer than Arizona's Grand Canyon; it was carved out by a river over four million years ago 2013 Event In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister 2011 Event The Arctic sun rises two days earlier than expected over Ilulissat, Greenland 1989 Event Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland 1979 Event Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) 1968 Birthday Rasmus Lerdorf, born in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, created PHP programming language, Open Source conference speaker, contributed to Apache HTTP Server 1968 Event U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1954 Event -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record) 1924 Event Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim 1923 Birthday James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist, African in Greenland 1913 Event 134 degrees F (57 degrees C), Greenland Ranch, California (U.S. record) 1870 Birthday Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, Greenland 1820 Birthday Elisha Kent Kane, U.S. Arctic explorer, Kane Basin off NW Greenland
