The temperature on February 7, 1912 was between 4.4 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
Christening day April 7, 1913
The temperature on April 7, 1913 was between 3.8 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
March 31 » The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
October 14 » Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
December 1 » Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
December 23 » The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
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