The temperature on January 4, 1912 was between 7.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
Day of death June 24, 1912
The temperature on June 24, 1912 was between 9.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
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