The temperature on May 24, 1912 was between 7.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
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.)
Day of death July 16, 1957
The temperature on July 16, 1957 was between 9.9 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
April 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
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