The temperature on July 11, 1912 was between 15.7 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Day of marriage March 24, 1942
The temperature on March 24, 1942 was between -2.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
February 1 » Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
April 8 » World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
August 30 » World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
December 10 » World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.
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