The temperature on January 13, 1912 was between 1.8 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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