The temperature on June 27, 1912 was between 10.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of marriage December 1, 1938
The temperature on December 1, 1938 was between 4.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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