The temperature on February 1, 1912 was between -2.3 and 0.8 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
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.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
Day of death October 13, 1957
The temperature on October 13, 1957 was between 3.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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