The temperature on April 7, 1912 was between 6.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
Day of death May 7, 1912
The temperature on May 7, 1912 was between 8.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
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