The temperature on December 15, 1907 was between -0.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
Day of death August 8, 1912
The temperature on August 8, 1912 was between 10.9 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
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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