1912 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1912?
- January 6, 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- 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 7, 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- March 12, 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- 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 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.
- July 8, 1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
- August 25, 1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- September 4, 1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
- September 28, 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 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 23, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
- 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 7, 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
- December 18, 1912 – The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
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