The temperature on March 14, 1911 was between 1.9 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Day of death June 15, 1912
The temperature on June 15, 1912 was between 11.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
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