The temperature on April 9, 1911 was between 0.5 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
Day of death November 18, 1912
The temperature on November 18, 1912 was between 0.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
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 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
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