The temperature on July 18, 1912 was between 10.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Day of death September 9, 1914
The temperature on September 9, 1914 was between 13.7 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
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