The temperature on September 29, 1912 was between 7.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
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.
December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
Day of marriage May 8, 1937
The temperature on May 8, 1937 was between 5.0 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
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