Today in History for Year 1912

Months in Year 1912: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 226

Jan 1st - 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km)
Jan 1st - Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
Jan 1st - The Republic of China is established.
Jan 3rd - South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
Jan 4th - Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
Jan 4th - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
Jan 5th - 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
Jan 5th - The Prague Party Conference takes place.
Jan 6th - New Mexico becomes 47th state
Jan 8th - The African National Congress is founded.
Jan 9th - US marines invade Honduras
Jan 10th - Caillaux government in France resigns
Jan 10th - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
Jan 12th - -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
Jan 13th - -40°F (-40°C), Oakland, Maryland (state record)
Jan 14th - Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France
Jan 17th - Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
Jan 23rd - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
Jan 29th - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott Feb 2nd - Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
Feb 7th - 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
Feb 8th - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
Feb 9th - US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
Feb 10th - Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
Feb 12th - China adopts Gregorian calendar
Feb 12th - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates
Feb 13th - England regains cricket's Ashes
Feb 14th - 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
Feb 14th - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
Feb 15th - Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
Feb 16th - VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
Feb 20th - Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
Feb 22nd - J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
Feb 25th - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
Feb 26th - Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
Feb 27th - Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
Feb 28th - Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
Mar 1st - Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
Mar 1st - Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC
Mar 5th - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
Mar 5th - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
Mar 7th - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
Mar 11th - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
Mar 11th - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
Mar 12th - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
Mar 12th - Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
Mar 12th - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
Mar 13th - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
Mar 14th - King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
Mar 15th - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
Mar 16th - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
Mar 17th - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
Mar 23rd - Dixie Cup invented
Mar 27th - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
Mar 29th - Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
Mar 30th - French protectorate in Morocco established
Apr 1st - The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record -in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters.
Apr 2nd - Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
Apr 2nd - Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
Apr 4th - Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
Apr 4th - Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
Apr 6th - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
Apr 8th - Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
Apr 9th - 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
Apr 9th - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
Apr 10th - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
Apr 11th - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
Apr 13th - Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
Apr 14th - HMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland
Apr 15th - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
Apr 16th - Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel
Apr 16th - Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
Apr 17th - 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
Apr 18th - The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
Apr 19th - 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of NY in 2:21:18.2
Apr 20th - Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
Apr 20th - Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5
Apr 26th - 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
Apr 27th - Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
Apr 29th - 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
Apr 29th - Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel," premieres in Berlin
May 1st - Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
May 1st - Beverly Hills Hotel opens
May 4th - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
May 5th - 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
May 5th - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
May 7th - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
May 11th - 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4
May 13th - Royal Flying Corps forms in England
May 15th - 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
May 15th - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
May 18th - A's beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
May 18th - Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
May 19th - AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
May 28th - Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Aust v South Africa
May 29th - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
May 30th - US Marines sent to Nicaragua
May 31st - US marines land on Cuba
Jun 1st - Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
Jun 4th - Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 532

Jan 1st - Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole
Jan 1st - Victor Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
Jan 1st - Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
Jan 2nd - Andre Ameller, composer
Jan 2nd - Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)
Jan 2nd - Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer
Jan 2nd - Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion)
Jan 3rd - Robert Flemyng, Liverpool England, actor (Windom's Way, Young Winston)
Jan 3rd - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
Jan 3rd - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
Jan 5th - Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53)
Jan 6th - Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer
Jan 7th - Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)
Jan 7th - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
Jan 8th - José Ferrer, San Juan Puerto Rico, actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune)
Jan 8th - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (True Face of Peace)
Jan 9th - Ralph Tubbs, architect
Jan 10th - Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948)
Jan 11th - Donald Barry, Houston Tx, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak)
Jan 11th - Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am)
Jan 11th - Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, Waco Texas, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
Jan 12th - Peter Pooley, broadcaster
Jan 15th - Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996)
Jan 16th - Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf)
Jan 17th - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer
Jan 18th - Charles Moeller, Belgian theologist (Humanism et saintete)
Jan 18th - William Sansom, English writer (Loving Eye)
Jan 19th - Francis David Charteris, earl of Wemyss & March/Scottish landowner
Jan 19th - Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch soc dem chairman (1965-69)
Jan 19th - Leonid V Kantorovich, St Petersburg Russia, economist (Nobel)
Jan 20th - Christopher Casson, Irish actor (Zardoz, Educating Rita)
Jan 20th - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
Jan 21st - Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
Jan 23rd - Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)
Jan 24th - Ken Weekes, cricketer (WI batsman v England 1939, 137 at The Oval)
Jan 25th - Lucius E Burch Jr, US lawyer/civil rights leader
Jan 26th - Cora Baird, NYC, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
Jan 27th - Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling, Indian/British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet)
Jan 27th - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
Jan 28th - Jackson Pollock, Cody Wyoming, expressionist painter (Lavender Mist)
Jan 28th - William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat (Prague 1939)
Jan 29th - "Professor" Irwin Corey, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
Jan 29th - Jacob "Jaap" Balk, journalist (AH, Onder de Keizerskroon)
Jan 30th - Barbara Tuchman, US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August)
Jan 30th - Jadwiga Wajsowna-Marcinkiewicz, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1932)
Jan 30th - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
Feb 2nd - Burton Lane, Broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
Feb 2nd - Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox)
Feb 2nd - Millvina Dean, last living survivour of the RMS Titanic.
Feb 3rd - Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information
Feb 4th - Byron Nelson, Fort Worth Tx, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
Feb 4th - Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
Feb 4th - James Craig, Nashville TN, actor (Devil & Daniel Webster, Cyclops)
Feb 4th - Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
Feb 4th - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
Feb 5th - Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
Feb 5th - Zoltan Pongracz, composer
Feb 6th - Eva Braun, mistress (Adolph Hitler)
Feb 7th - Derek Farr, London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
Feb 7th - Jane Ross, Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
Feb 7th - Russell Drysdale, Australian Artist {d. 1981}
Feb 8th - Simon Jurovsky, composer
Feb 9th - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist
Feb 10th - Lord Orr-Ewing
Feb 11th - Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist (Lost Season)
Feb 11th - Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
Feb 11th - Roy Fuller, English writer (d. 1991)
Feb 12th - Eddie J Bush, golf professional
Feb 12th - Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House)
Feb 12th - R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972)
Feb 13th - French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
Feb 13th - Jose de Capriles, US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52)
Feb 13th - Margaretta Scott, actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast)
Feb 14th - Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)=
Feb 14th - Juan Pujol Garcia, [Garbo/Arabel], Spanish British/German double agent
Feb 14th - Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist
Feb 14th - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
Feb 15th - George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
Feb 16th - Arthur Crook, British editor (Times Literary Supplement)
Feb 16th - Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch (female) author
Feb 16th - Del Sharbutt, Cleburne Tx, TV announcer (Your Hit Parade)
Feb 16th - Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader (created salsa music)
Feb 16th - Maitland Mackie, Lord Lt (Aberdeenshire)
Feb 17th - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
Feb 19th - Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana)
Feb 19th - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher
Feb 19th - Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
Feb 19th - Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997)
Feb 20th - Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
Feb 21st - Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
Feb 21st - Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
Feb 21st - Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire
Feb 24th - Julius Kowalski, composer
Feb 25th - Richard Wattis, England, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl)
Feb 25th - Brenda Joyce, American actress
Feb 27th - Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
Feb 28th - Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
Feb 28th - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
Mar 1st - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
Mar 2nd - Arthur Beaumont C Langton, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler of 1930's)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Aug 10th - British literary figure (author of "To the Lighthouse") Virginia Woolf (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31)
Dec 19th - Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 76 of 76

Jan 3rd - Felix Dahn, writer, dies at 77
Jan 14th - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant & Epigones), dies at 71
Jan 16th - Georg Heym, writer, dies at 24
Jan 28th - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
Jan 29th - Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54
Feb 10th - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies
Feb 16th - Edgar Evans, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
Feb 16th - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
Feb 17th - Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57
Feb 17th - Lawrence Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
Feb 22nd - Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
Feb 25th - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
Feb 28th - Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
Mar 1st - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
Mar 29th - Robert Falcon Scott, British pole explorer, dies in Antarctica at 43
Mar 30th - Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70
Apr 12th - Clara Barton, organizer (American Red Cross), dies at 90
Apr 13th - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
Apr 14th - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
Humanitarian Clara Barton (Apr 12th) Apr 15th - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
Apr 15th - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
Apr 15th - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
Apr 20th - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64
Apr 24th - Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81
Apr 30th - František Kmoch, Czech composer, dies at 63
May 14th - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63
May 14th - Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68
May 19th - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
May 25th - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
May 26th - Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
May 30th - Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
Jun 9th - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
Jun 10th - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
Jun 11th - Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74
Jun 12th - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies
Jun 25th - Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65
Jun 27th - George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies
Jul 2nd - Tom Richardson, cricketer (88 wickets in 14 Tests for England), dies
Jul 2nd - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
Jul 15th - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21
Jul 17th - J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
Jul 25th - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
Jul 30th - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
Aug 7th - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
Aug 13th - Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
Aug 19th - Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
Aug 20th - William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
Sep 1st - Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62
Sep 1st - Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37
Sep 5th - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
Sep 12th - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
Sep 13th - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
Sep 30th - Mary Frances Allitsen, composer, dies at 63
Oct 3rd - Guido Papini, composer, dies at 65
Oct 4th - Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
Oct 6th - August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
Oct 8th - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
Oct 9th - Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
Oct 19th - J E B B P Q C Dwyer, cricketer (Aus-born Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies
Oct 24th - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83
Oct 30th - Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56
Oct 30th - Preston Lockwood, British(?) actor/writer, dies
Oct 30th - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
Nov 6th - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
Nov 10th - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
Nov 11th - Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75
Nov 11th - Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
Nov 12th - Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
Nov 28th - Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies
Nov 28th - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
Dec 3rd - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
Dec 7th - George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
Dec 12th - Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
Dec 14th - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
Dec 23rd - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
Dec 30th - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60