The temperature on June 28, 1912 was between 11.2 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
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.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of death January 25, 1943
The temperature on January 25, 1943 was between -1.3 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
April 13 » The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
October 22 » World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
November 16 » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
December 2 » World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SSJohn Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
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