1912

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Year 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents:

Events of 1912
- - Jan. . Feb. . March . April
- - May . June . July . Aug.
- - Sept. . Oct. . Nov. . Dec.
- - Undated . Ongoing .
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
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Events of 1912

January

January 6: Statehood for New Mexico.
February 14: Statehood for Arizona.

January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.
January 4 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
January 5 - Prague Party Conference.
January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
January 8 - African National Congress is founded.
January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
January 23 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.

February

February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.

March

March 27: Cherry trees for D.C.

March 1 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
March 5 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
March 7
- Roald Amundsen announces his success in reaching the South Pole.
- French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours.
March 12 - The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded.
March 16 - Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
March 27 - Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
March 30 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.

April

The RMS Titanic sinking on April 15, 1912

April 14 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes the iceberg at 11:40 pm.
April 15 - By 2:20a.m, the RMS Titanic sinks, taking with it 1500 victims.
April 16 - Harriet Quimby becomes first woman to fly across the English Channel.
April 16 - The Royal Ontario Museum is established in Toronto, Ontario.
April 17
- Solar eclipse in Europe.
April 20
- Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens.
April 22
- Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, opens.

May

April 22: Fenway Park opens in Boston

May 5 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
May 6 - Suffrage parade in New York City,
May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
May 30 - Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500-Mile Race after Ralph DePalma's Mercedes breaks down within sight of the finish.

June

June 4 - Fire in Constantinople - 1120 buildings destroyed
June 5 - U.S. Marines land on Cuba
June 6-June 8 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska
June 8 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
June 18 - The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in Chicago, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention.
June 25 - The Democratic National Convention nominates New Jersey Gov. Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Baltimore.

July

July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
July 30 - Emperor Meiji of Japan, dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes Emperor Taishō. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.

August

August 1 - Inauguration of the Jungfraubahn
August 5 - Dissident Republicans form the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and nominate former President Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate.
August 11 - Sodomy becomes legal in France.
August 12 - Sultan Abd Al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.

March 7: Amundsen and South Pole

August 28 - Rosamond Carr is born in South Orange, New Jersey

September

September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York, New York.

October

October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
October 16
- Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
- The Boston Red Sox, assisted by a famous error, defeat the New York Giants in extra innings to win the 1912 World Series, in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.

November

November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.
November 7 - The Deute Ottoman Empire.
November 29 - Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.

December

December - Piltdown Man presented in Britain.
December 3 - First Balkan War ends temporarily - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.

Undated

Sea Scouting begins under the aegis of the Boy Scouts of America.
Casimir Funk identifies vitamins.
"The Memphis Blues," is published.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift.
British treasure hunters try to drain Lake Guatavita to find gold – they find nothing.

Ongoing

Mexican Civil War

Births

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January-February

January 1 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
January 2 - Hans Leussink, German politician (d. 2008)
January 3 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
January 6 - Jacques Ellul, French philosopher (d. 1994)
January 7 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
January 8 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
January 19 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
January 21 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2000)
January 28 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
January 30
- Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- Barbara Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
- Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor (d. 1984)
February 2 - Millvina Dean, youngest survivor of RMS Titanic
February 3 - Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer
February 4
- Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
- Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
February 6 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
February 11 - Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (d. 1991)
February 20 - Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
February 25 - Brenda Joyce, American actress
February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)

March-April

March 4
- Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
- Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
- Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
March 5 - David Astor, British newspaper publisher (d. 2001)
March 8 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
March 12 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
March 14
- Les Brown, American band leader (d. 2001)
- W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator
March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
March 16 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
March 17 - Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
March 18
- Lucien Laurin, Canadian horse trainer (d. 2000)
- Art Gilmore, American radio and television announcer
March 22 - Karl Malden, American actor
March 23
- Betty Astell, British actress (d. 2005)
- Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
March 24 - Dorothy Height, American activist
March 27 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
April 2 - Herbert Mills, "Mills Brothers" tenor (d. 1989)
April 7 - Jack Lawrence, American composer
April 8
- Alois Brunner, Nazi war criminal
- Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)
April 11 - Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (d. 2007)
April 12 - Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
April 15 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
April 16 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
April 17 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States
April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (d. 1953)
April 26 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer (d. 2000)
April 28 - Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (d. 1995)

May-June

May 3 - Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
May 11 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
May 12 - Archibald Cox, American Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2004)
May 14 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
May 16 - Studs Terkel, American writer and broadcaster
May 18
- Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001)
- Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
May 21 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
May 22 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
May 23
- Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
- John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
May 25 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
May 27 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
May 28
- Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. 1992)
May 29 - Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (d. 1981)
May 30 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
May 31 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
June 4 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
June 5 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
June 6 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
June 8
- Harry Holtzman, American artist (d. 1987)
- J. Walter Kennedy, former NBA commissioner (d. 1977)
June 21 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (d. 2000)
June 23 - Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
June 24 - Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d 1994)
June 25 - William T. Cahill, American politician (d. 1996)
June 26 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
June 27 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (d. 1990)
June 30 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)