The temperature on December 30, 1912 was between 2.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
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.
Day of marriage March 26, 1936
The temperature on March 26, 1936 was between 5.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 15 » First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
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