1912 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1912?
- January 4, 1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal charter.
- January 8, 1912 – The African National Congress is founded.
- February 14, 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
- February 18, 1912 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 5, 1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- March 7, 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- March 16, 1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
- March 30, 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- April 10, 1912 – The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
- April 20, 1912 – Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- April 22, 1912 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China’s leading universities, is founded.
- May 8, 1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
- June 4, 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- June 6, 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- October 24, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
- October 26, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
- November 12, 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- December 3, 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
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