The temperature on March 24, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against 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.)
Day of death August 26, 2001
The temperature on August 26, 2001 was between 18.3 °C and 30.0 °C and averaged 22.5 °C. There was 16.2 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
September 10 » Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
October 19 » SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
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