1912 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1912?
- January 4, 1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal charter.
- January 6, 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- January 17, 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- February 14, 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
- February 18, 1912 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- 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.
- May 4, 1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- May 13, 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
- June 6, 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- June 8, 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- September 4, 1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
- October 7, 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
- October 14, 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
- October 18, 1912 – First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
- October 19, 1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- 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.
- December 8, 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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