The temperature on September 17, 1911 was between 5.0 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
Day of death December 11, 1912
The temperature on December 11, 1912 was between 6.1 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
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