The temperature on December 12, 1912 was between 3.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
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 marriage November 24, 1938
The temperature on November 24, 1938 was between 2.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
Day of death March 6, 1954
The temperature on March 6, 1954 was between 1.0 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
September 9 » The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
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