The temperature on November 1, 1911 was between 2.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
Day of marriage March 31, 1937
The temperature on March 31, 1937 was between -1.3 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
May 7 » Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
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