The temperature on August 21, 1912 was between 10.5 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
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.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of marriage February 23, 1933
The temperature on February 23, 1933 was between -5.5 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
January 30 » Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
March 28 » The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
April 4 » U.S. Navy airship USSAkron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
June 17 » Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
December 6 » U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
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