The temperature on July 19, 1912 was between 8.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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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