The temperature on January 17, 1912 was between -9.2 °C and -2.5 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of marriage April 28, 1937
The temperature on April 28, 1937 was between 2.9 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
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