The temperature on October 10, 1912 was between 1.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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