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'''1912''' '''(MCMXII)''' was a Leap_year_starting_on_Monday.
==Events==
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===January-March===
* January_1 - Establishment of Republic_of_China.
* January_5 - Prague_Party_Conference
* 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.
* January_23 - The International_Opium_Convention is signed at The_Hague.
* February_8 - Mexican_Revolution - Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco_Madero begins in Mexico_City. Battles last for 10 days
* 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.
* February_18 - Francisco_Madero is forced to resign - battle ends. All members of Madero's government are arrested.
* February_19 - Prizes are included in Cracker_Jack candy boxes for the first time
* February_22 - Francisco_Madero and Pino_Suarez are shot, allegedly when they "tried to escape"
* 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_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-September===
* April_15 - Sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''.
* April_17 - Solar_eclipse in Europe.
* April_19 - United_States_Senate inquiry into the ''Titanic'' sinking begins.
* May_2 - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of ''Titanic'' begins.
* May_3 - The first victims of the RMS ''Titanic'' are buried in Halifax,_Nova_Scotia.
* May_5 - The 1912_Summer_Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
* 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_12 - Greek island of Icana declares Independence (Greece annexes it in November)
* July_19 - A Meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo_County,_Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
* July_30 - 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_period 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 - Chios 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 Lake_Guatavita to find gold – they find nothing.
* African_National_Congress
==Births==
===January-February===
* January_1 - Kim_Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
* 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 - Barbara_W._Tuchman, American 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 and novelist (d. 1991)
* February_19 - Stan_Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
* February_20 - Pierre_Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
* February_27 - Lawrence_Durrell, British 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, Canadian poet
* March_14 - Les_Brown, American band leader (d. 2001)
* 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)
* March_22 - Karl_Malden, American actor
* March_23 - Betty_Astell, British actress (d. 2005)
* March_23 - Wernher_von_Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
* March_27 - James_Callaghan, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom (d. 2005)
* April_8 - Sonja_Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)
* April_12 - Walt_Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
* April_15 - Kim_Il_Sung, President_of_North_Korea (d. 1994)
* 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-July===
* May_3 - Virgil_Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
* May_9 - Pedro_Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
*May 9 - Per_Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d. 1943)
* May_11 - Foster_Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
* May_12 - Archibald_Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2001)
* May_14 - Ben_Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
* May_16 - Studs_Terkel, American writer and broadcaster
* May_18 - Perry_Como, American singer (d. 2001)
* May_18 - 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)
* May_23 - 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)
* 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_6 - Maria_Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
* June_23 - Alan_Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
* 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)
* July_1 - David_R._Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
* July_14 - Woody_Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1969)
* July_17 - Art_Linkletter, American television host
* July_31 - Milton_Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* July_31 - Irv_Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
===August-November===
* August_9 - Anne_Brown, American soprano
* August_10 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian author (d. 2001)
* August_11 - Thanom_Kittikachorn, Prime_Minister_of_Thailand (d. 2004)
* August_11 - Norman_Levinson, American mathematician (d. 1975)
*August_13 - Salvador_Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1991)
* August_15 - Julia_Child, American chef (d. 2004)
* August_16 - Ted_Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
* August_16 - Wendy_Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
* August_23 - Gene_Kelly, American actor (d. 1996)
* August_25 - Erich_Honecker, East German leader (d. 1994)
* August_30 - Edward_Mills_Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
* August_30 - Nancy_Wake, New Zealand World War II heroine
* September_5 - John_Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
* September_11 - David_Packard, American electrical engineer (d. 1996)
* September_19 - Kurt_Sanderling, German conductor
* September_21 - Chuck_Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
* September_22 - Martha_Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
* September_24 - Don_Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
* September_29 - Michelangelo_Antonioni, Italian film director
* October_5 - Karl_Hass, Nazi war criminal (d. 2004)
* October_5 - Kristina_Söderbaum, German actress (d. 2001)
* October_17 - Pope_John_Paul_I (d. 1978)
* October_21 - Georg_Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
* October_22 - Johan_Hendrik_Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (d. 1994)
* October_25 - Minnie_Pearl, American commedienne (d. 1996)
* October_27 - Conlon_Nancarrow, American composer (d. 1997)
* November_4 - Vadim_Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
* November_10 - Birdie_Tebbetts, baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
* November_11 - Larry_LaPrise American songwriter (d. 1996)
* November_14 - Barbara_Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)
* November_14 - T._Y._Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)
*November_19 - George_Emil_Palade, Romanian cell biologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine
* November_21 - Eleanor_Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1982)
* November_26 - Eugene_Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (d. 1994)
===December===
* December_11 - Carlo_Ponti, Italian film producer
* December_12 - Henry_Armstrong, American boxer (d. 1988)
* December_25 - Natalino_Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
* December_27 - Conroy_Maddox, British painter (d. 2005)
==Deaths==
* January_28 - Gustave_de_Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
* February_16 - Nikolai_of_Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint (b. 1836)
* February_25 - Guillaume_IV,_Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg (b. 1852)
* March_1 - George_Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
* March_29 - Robert_Falcon_Scott, British Antarctic explorer (froze to death) (b. 1868)
* March_30 - Karl_May, German author (b. 1842)
* April_15 - Victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic:
** Edward_J._Smith, ship's captain (b. 1850)
** John_Jacob_Astor_IV, American businessman (b. 1864)
** Archibald_Butt, American presidential aide (b. 1865)
** Benjamin_Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865)
** William_Thomas_Stead, English journalist (b. 1849)
** Isidor_Straus, German-American owner of Macy's (b. 1845)
** Thomas Andrews, Jr., Titanic shipbuilder (b.1873)
* May_14 - August_Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter (b. 1849)
* May_14 - Frederick VIII, King of Denmark (b. 1843)
* May_25 - Austin_Lane_Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
* May_30 - Wilbur_Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
* June_12 - Frédéric_Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (b. 1822)
* July_1 - Harriet_Quimby, American pilot (b. 1875)
* July_2 - Tom_Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
* July_30 - Meiji_Emperor of Japan (b. 1852)
* August_7 - François-Alphonse_Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
* August_8 - Ross_Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher (b. 1871)
* October_6 - Auguste_Marie_Francois_Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (b. 1829)
* October_24 - Mykola_Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
* October_30 - James_S._Sherman, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (b. 1855)
* November_10 - Louis_Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
* November_28 - Walter_Benona_Sharp, American oil pioneer (b. 1870)
* December_23 - Otto_Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
==Nobel Prizes==
* Physics - Nils Gustaf Dalén
* Chemistry - Victor_Grignard, Paul_Sabatier
* Medicine - Alexis_Carrel
* Literature - Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
* Peace - Elihu_Root
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