The temperature on February 26, 1911 was between 2.5 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
Day of death August 1, 1912
The temperature on August 1, 1912 was between 9.3 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
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.
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
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