The temperature on July 22, 1912 was between 14.2 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 20.5 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of marriage February 13, 1936
The temperature on February 13, 1936 was between -4.4 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
June 28 » The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
Day of death February 18, 1960
The temperature on February 18, 1960 was between -4.6 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 14 » The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
May 24 » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
July 8 » Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
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