1912 - Definition


1912 - Definition

1912 is a leap year starting on Monday.

Years:
1909 1910 1911 - 1912 - 1913 1914 1915

Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1912 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science - Television
Other topics
Canada - Ireland - Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

Contents

1.1 January-March
1.2 April-September
1.3 October-November
1.4 December
1.5 unknown dates

2.1 January-February
2.2 March-April
2.3 May-July
2.4 August-November
2.5 December

Events

January-March

January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.
January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
February 12 - Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar
February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
February 14 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
March 1 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
March 1 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
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 discovery of the South Pole
March 7 – French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours
March 12 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) are founded.
March 16 – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time"
March 30 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.

April-September

April 15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
April 17 – Solar eclipse in Europe.
May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
June 4 - Fire in Constantinople - 1120 buildings destroyed
June 5 - US Marines land on Cuba
June 6-June 8 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska, second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
June 8 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
July 30 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, the Taisho Emperor. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji Era and the beginning of the Taisho Era.
August 12 - Sultan Abd al-Hafiz of Morocco abdicates.
August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York,_New York.

October-November

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 William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still 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.
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 Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opened in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
November 11 - Khios declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
November 24 - Mine explosion in Hokkaido, Japan - 245 dead
November 27 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
November 28 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

December

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.

unknown dates

Sea Scouting begins under the aegis of the Boy Scouts of America
Kazimierz Funk identifies vitamins.
The first blues song, "The Memphis Blues," is published.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift
Mount Katmai in Alaska explodes
Piltdown Man presented in Britain
British treasure hunters try to drain the Guatavita Lake to find gold – they find nothing
African National Congress

Births

January-February

January 1 - Kim Philby, spy (d. 1988)
January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
January 8 - Jos� Ferrer, actor (d. 1992)
January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
January 16 - Franz Tumler, Austrian narrator (d. 1998)
January 28 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (d. 1956)
January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
February 4 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
February 6 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
February 11 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla, Czechoslovakian, pianist.
February 18 - Heinz K�hn, politician (d. 1992)
February 19 - Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979)
February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (d. 1994)
February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, writer (d. 1990)

March-April

March 5 - David Astor, British newspaper publisher (d. 2001)
March 8 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
March 12 - Irving Layton, poet
March 14 - Les Brown, band leader (d. 2001)
March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins, musician (d. 1982)
March 16 - Pat Nixon, actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
March 17 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (d. 1987)
March 18 - Lucien Laurin, Secretariat's Hall of Fame trainer (d. 2000)
March 22 - Karl Malden, actor
March 23 - Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
March 27 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
March 31 - Hermann H�cherl, politician (d. 1989)
April 8 - Sonja Henie, Olympic and World Champion figure skater (d. 1969)
April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American atomic scientist (d. 1999)
April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier, American contralto (d. 1953)
April 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer (d. 2000)
April 28 - Odette Sansom, SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1995)

May-July

May 9 - Pedro Armend�riz, actor (d. 1963)
May 11 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
May 12 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2001)
May 14 - Ben Hogan, golfer (d. 1997)
May 16 - Studs Terkel, writer
May 18 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
May 18 - Perry Como, singer (d. 2001)
May 21 - Monty Stratton, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1982)
May 23 - John Payne, actor (d. 1989)
May 27 - Sam Snead (d. 2002)
May 28 - Patrick White, author (d. 1990)
May 30 - Joseph Stein, playwright
May 30 - Julius Axelrod, biochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
May 31 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
June 6 - Maria Montez, actress (d. 1951)
June 23 - Alan Turing, mathematician (d. 1954)
June 26 - Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
July 1 - David R. Brower, major environmentalist (d. 2000)
July 14 - Woody Guthrie, folk musician (d. 1969)
July 17 - Art Linkletter, television host

August-November

August 14 - John Jacob Astor V, member of the Astor family (d. 1992)
August 23 - Gene Kelly, actor (d. 1996)
August 30 - Nancy Wake, WW II heroine
September 5 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
September 5 - Kristina S�derbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
September 12 - Jacques Fath, French couturier (d. 1954)
September 19 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
September 21 - Chuck Jones, animator (d. 2002)
September 22 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
October 5 – Karl Hass, convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 2004)
October 17 - Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
October 21 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
October 22 - Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian born WW II hero (d. 1994)
October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer (d. 1997)
November 4 - Vadim Salmanov, composer (d. 1978)
November 10 - Birdie Tebbetts, Major League Baseball catcher and manager (d. 1999)
November 14 – Barbara Hutton, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl" (d. 1979)
November 21 - Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (d. 1982)
November 26 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994)

December

December 11 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer
December 12 - Henry Armstrong, American boxing champion (d. 1988)
December 25 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer
December 27 - Conroy Maddox, British painter (d. 2005)
(unknown) - Laurence Henry Hicks, composer (d. 1997)

Deaths

January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist
February 16 - Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk priest, saint
March 1 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan. (b. 1847)
March 29 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer
March 30 - Karl May, author
April 15 - Most of crew and passengers on the Titanic
April 15 - John Jacob Astor IV, businessman aboard the Titanic
April 15 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman aboard the Titanic
May 14 - August Strindberg
May 25 - Austin Lane Crothers, politician.
May 30 - Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane
July 1 - Harriet Quimby, first licensed female pilot in the United States
July 30 - the Meiji Emperor of Japan.
August 8 - Ross Winn, anarchist writer and publisher
October 24 - Mykola Lysenko, composer
October 30 - James S. Sherman, United States vice-president.

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Nils Gustaf Dal�n
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - Alexis Carrel
Literature - Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
Peace - Elihu Root

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