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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 ...
December 6, 1912: Authentic bust of Egypt's Queen Nefertiti discovered after 32 centuries December 19, 1912: The original "Star Spangled Banner" is donated to the Smithsonian December 18, 1912: Fake prehistoric "missing link" Eoanthropus dawsoni presented to British scientists
Walter de la Mare's The Listeners, and Other Poems.; Ethel M. Dell's first novel The Way of an Eagle. [15]Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World.; The first Georgian Poetry anthology Georgian Poetry 1911–12 edited by Edward Marsh.
Jack Lescoulie, American broadcaster, host of NBC's Today; in Sacramento, California (d. 1987 ) [ citation needed ] Died: Richard Norman Shaw , 81, Scottish architect, best known for his planning design for Bedford Park, London (b.
October 14, 1912: John Schrank shoots ... The longest drought in U.S. history began in Bagdad in San Bernardino County, California. ... Today, the Riga Zoo houses ...
July 14, 1912: Ken McArthur at the entrance to Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Ken McArthur, a policeman from Johannesburg, South Africa, won the Olympic marathon in 2 hours and 36 minutes. [60] Francisco Lázaro of Portugal became the first athlete to die in the modern Olympics, collapsing in the heat during the race and dying the next day. [61]
May 23, 1912: Imperator, world's largest ocean liner, is launched May 9, 1912: Royal Navy Commander Samson of HMS Hibernia becomes first pilot to take off from a moving ship May 18, 1912: USS Texas, largest U.S. warship, launched May 24, 1912: Piltdown Man hoax continues with delivery of skull fragments May 18, 1912: KongÅ, Japan's largest Japanese battleship is launched