The temperature on May 24, 1911 was between 9.7 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of death November 24, 1912
The temperature on November 24, 1912 was between 4.3 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
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.
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.)
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