The temperature on June 6, 1912 was between 10.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
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 death August 13, 1953
The temperature on August 13, 1953 was between 13.9 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
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