The temperature on May 5, 1912 was between 4.7 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
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.)
Day of marriage July 20, 1937
The temperature on July 20, 1937 was between 14.8 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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