January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage February 9, 1912
The temperature on February 9, 1912 was between 7.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
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.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death November 6, 1947
The temperature on November 6, 1947 was between 7.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
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