The temperature on January 18, 1912 was between -6.0 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death January 27, 1912
The temperature on January 27, 1912 was between -5.4 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
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