The temperature on July 20, 1912 was between 8.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
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.
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