The temperature on September 21, 1911 was between 6.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Christening day January 21, 1912
The temperature on January 21, 1912 was between -0.6 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
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.
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
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.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of marriage August 29, 1934
The temperature on August 29, 1934 was between 9.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
August 2 » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
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