The temperature on January 20, 1912 was between -2.3 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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.
Day of marriage December 12, 1931
The temperature on December 12, 1931 was between -4.7 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
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