The temperature on April 9, 1912 was between 0.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
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