The temperature on December 25, 1912 was between 5.9 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of death December 26, 1912
The temperature on December 26, 1912 was between 3.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
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