The temperature on March 11, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of death July 24, 1912
The temperature on July 24, 1912 was between 13.0 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Hans Weening, "Family tree Weening", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-weening/I167591.php : accessed February 13, 2026), "Taetske Dijkstra (1912-1912)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.