The temperature on May 14, 1912 was between -0.1 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
Day of marriage January 2, 1936
The temperature on January 2, 1936 was between 5.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
November 25 » In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
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