The temperature on January 16, 1912 was between -4.2 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
Day of death March 10, 1912
The temperature on March 10, 1912 was between 4.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
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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