Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
1912 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the ...
October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (born 1855) November 25 – Isidor Rayner, U.S. senator from Maryland from 1905 to 1912 (born 1850) November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, oil pioneer (born 1870) December 18 – Will Carleton, poet (born 1845) December 29 – Philip H. Cooper, admiral ...
26 February–6 April – National coal strike of 1912. [5] 1 March – suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London, especially around Oxford Street. [6] 16 March – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time". He is not seen again. [2]
1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low; 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt shot, but not killed, while campaigning for the presidency; October 30, 1912 – Vice President Sherman dies; 1912 – U.S. presidential election: Woodrow Wilson elected president, Thomas R. Marshall, vice
The 1912 United States elections elected the members of the 63rd United States Congress, occurring during the Fourth Party System.Amidst a division between incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft and former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt, the Democratic Party won the presidency and both chambers of Congress, the first time they accomplished that feat since the 1892 elections.
10 October – The Maternity Allowance Act 1912 is passed, granting a "Baby Bonus" of five pounds to the mother of every child born in Australia (indigenous mothers and other non-citizens are excluded). [9] 12 October – Forty-two people die in the North Mount Lyell Disaster on the west coast of Tasmania.
The following events occurred in November 1912: ... Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, American business leader, founder of the Key Biscayne Bank & Trust, ...
1912 events in the United States by month (3 C) N. 1912 American novels (26 P) P. 1912 in American politics (3 C, 3 P) S. 1912 in American sports (15 C, 4 P)