The temperature on March 1, 1912 was between 4.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
Day of marriage October 15, 1930
The temperature on October 15, 1930 was between 7.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
September 6 » Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
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