The temperature on July 30, 1911 was between 19.2 °C and 28.3 °C and averaged 23.0 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
Day of death May 22, 1914
The temperature on May 22, 1914 was between 10.1 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
May 15 » During a poker game at the Gaiety Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois, comedian Art Fisher nicknames Chicko, Harpo, Groucho, and Gummo Marx.
July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
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