The temperature on June 25, 1912 was between 9.3 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
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.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
Day of marriage September 29, 1936
The temperature on September 29, 1936 was between 0.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
March 1 » The Hoover Dam is completed.
April 15 » First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
Day of death July 30, 1944
The temperature on July 30, 1944 was between 13.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 29.7 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
February 20 » World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
June 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
August 12 » Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
August 24 » World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
November 1 » World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
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