The temperature on July 17, 1912 was between 13.3 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of death October 26, 1914
The temperature on October 26, 1914 was between 10.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 14.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
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