The temperature on July 2, 1912 was between 8.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
Day of marriage June 12, 1937
The temperature on June 12, 1937 was between 14.2 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
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