The temperature on December 1, 1912 was between -0.5 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). 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.
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
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 January 15, 1943
The temperature on January 15, 1943 was between -0.1 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
March 15 » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
March 21 » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
November 3 » World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
November 18 » World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
November 23 » World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
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