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
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
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 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 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
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
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