The temperature on August 7, 1912 was between 10.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of marriage July 29, 1935
The temperature on July 29, 1935 was between 11.4 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
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