Historical Events in 1912

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• Jan 1 1st running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" footrace (7.63 miles/12.3 km); first winner Robert Vlught 44:10

• Jan 2 Brookyln Superbas Baseball Club President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of 4.5 acres of land to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 23,000; Ebbets Field opens in 1913

• Jan 4 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center
• Jan 4 The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
• Jan 5 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
• Jan 5 The Prague Party Conference takes place.

• Jan 6 New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union
• Jan 8 Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organizations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms
• Jan 9 US Marines send troops to Honduras
• Jan 10 Caillaux government in France resigns
• Jan 10 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
• Jan 11 Bread & Roses Strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts following a pay cut
• Jan 12 -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
• Jan 13 -40°F (-40°C), Oakland, Maryland (state record)

• Jan 23 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague
• Jan 29 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
• Feb 2 Frederick R. Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
• Feb 7 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
• Feb 8 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida
• Feb 8 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength
• Feb 9 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
• Feb 10 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG

• Feb 12 The last Qing Emperor of China, Puyi (age 6) abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the "mandate of heaven"
• Feb 13 Olympic boxing gold medallist Johnny Douglas takes 5/46 as England cricket team regains Ashes with an innings and 225 run 4th Test win over Australia in Melbourne
• Feb 14 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
• Feb 14 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
• Feb 15 Schooner 'Fram' reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
• Feb 16 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
• Feb 20 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the series
• Feb 22 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
• Feb 25 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• Feb 26 Coal miners strike in Britain (settle on 1st March)

• Feb 28 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
• Mar 1 Isabella Goodwin appointed first US woman detective, NYC
• Mar 1 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane
• Mar 5 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• Mar 5 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die

• Mar 11 First Stanley Cup challenge game to be played in three 20-minute periods (formerly 30-minute halves), Quebec beats Moncton, 9-3 on way to series sweep
• Mar 12 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv

• Mar 13 Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria, but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey
• Mar 13 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
• Mar 14 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt

• Mar 17 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
• Mar 27 US First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. [1]

• Mar 30 French protectorate in Morocco established

• Apr 2 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China
• Apr 4 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields in Siberia
• Apr 4 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
• Apr 8 Steamers collide on the Nile, drowning 200
• Apr 9 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
• Apr 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage
• Apr 11 Cornerstone of Technion laid in Haifa, Palestine
• Apr 11 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY
• Apr 11 The UK Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons; Protestants in Ulster resist
• Apr 13 Royal Flying Corps forms (later Royal Air Force)

• Apr 16 Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)

• Apr 18 Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City
• Apr 18 Tripolitan War: in continuing hostilities, Turkey closes the Dardanelles Straits after an Italian naval bombardment of the coastline
• Apr 20 Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
• Apr 20 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
• Apr 26 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
• Apr 27 Relief laws in Netherlands replace those of 1854
• Apr 29 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)

• May 1 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
• May 4 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
• May 5 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)

• May 8 Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded
• May 13 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain

• May 18 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
• May 18 Philadelphia Athletics rout Detroit Tigers, 24-2 at Shibe Park; Tigers use amateurs in protest at Ty Cobbs suspension from the game
• May 19 AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
• May 28 Australian cricket spin bowler Jimmy Matthews takes 2 hat-tricks on same day in Triangular Tournament v South Africa at Old Trafford (3/16, 3/38); only player to achieve the feat
• May 29 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
• May 29 Ballets Russes premieres their ballet L'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) in Paris, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky
• May 30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
• May 31 US marines land on Cuba
• Jun 1 Dutch soccer club Stormvogels forms in Ijmuiden; merges with VSV to form Telstar in 1963
• Jun 4 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
• Jun 4 State of Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
• Jun 5 US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba

• Jun 7 St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
• Jun 7 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
• Jun 8 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• Jun 13 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game

• Jun 19 Tennessee University is established (as the Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School for Negroes), in Nashville, Tennessee
• Jun 20 NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
• Jun 20 NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12

• Jul 2 Horn & Hardart opens its 1st NYC "automat" (self-service restaurant)

• Jul 4 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0

• Jul 6 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
• Jul 6 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May

• Jul 8 G.E.V. Crutchley playing for Oxford scores 99 not out, retires with measles v Cambridge

• Jul 10 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
• Jul 11 There are 6 medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault; American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95m); countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright dead-heat for silver; 3-man dead-heat for bronze
• Jul 12 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - "Queen Elizabeth" in NYC
• Jul 14 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
• Jul 15 American athlete Jim Thorpe is placed in top 4 in all 10 events, for an Olympic record 8,413 points to win the Decathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
• Jul 15 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
• Jul 16 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
• Jul 17 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
• Jul 18 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
• Jul 19 A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
• Jul 20 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
• Jul 22 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea
• Jul 22 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in Stockholm, Sweden
• Jul 25 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
• Jul 31 US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship)
• Aug 5 Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo
• Aug 7 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President
• Aug 14 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
• Aug 15 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
• Aug 19 Percy Grainger's orchestral piece "Shepherd's Hey" premieres
• Aug 20 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect

• Aug 21 Francis Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia
• Aug 22 England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
• Aug 24 District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
• Aug 24 Ticker-tape parade held in NYC for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
• Aug 24 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
• Aug 25 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
• Aug 25 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
• Aug 25 The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
• Aug 26 MLB pitcher Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
• Aug 30 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1

• Sep 4 First accident (collision) in London Underground: 22 people injured
• Sep 6 NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
• Sep 9 French aviator Jules Védrines is the first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)

• Sep 12 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
• Sep 15 Boston Red Sox pitcher "Smoky" Joe Wood ties then MLB record of 16 straight wins with a 2-1 victory over St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park
• Sep 15 War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
• Sep 17 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles
• Sep 19 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
• Sep 19 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
• Sep 19 The wattle is declared Australia's national flower and incorporated into the Commonwealth Coat of Arms
• Sep 22 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins becomes only player in MLB history to steal 6 bases in one game for a second time as A's beat St. Louis Browns, 8-2

• Sep 25 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City

• Sep 28 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die

• Oct 5 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 0 for their 105th win of the MLB season, an AL record until 1927 NY Yankees (110)
• Oct 5 NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium; beat Washington, 8-6; Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park; lose 1-0 v NY Giants
• Oct 6 Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
• Oct 7 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• Oct 8 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
• Oct 14 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
• Oct 14 Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government
• Oct 16 Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres at the Berlin Choralion-Saal sung by Albertine Zehme
• Oct 17 Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey
• Oct 18 Black boxer Jack Johnson arrested for violating the Mann Act for "transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes" due to his relationship with white woman Lucille Cameron, allegedly a prostitute. Later convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison.
• Oct 18 The First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed to Turkey

• Oct 19 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
• Oct 20 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
• Oct 20 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
• Oct 26 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
• Oct 26 Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens
• Nov 5 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
• Nov 5 Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water

• Nov 9 Ferenc Molnàr's play "Farkas" premieres in Budapest
• Nov 9 Ottoman garrison surrenders Thessaloniki / Salonika to the Greek army (OS Oct 27)
• Nov 12 British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica
• Nov 12 Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas y Méndez is assassinated by an anarchist book shopping in Madrid
• Nov 18 Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
• Nov 23 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
• Nov 24 Conflict in the Balkans grows into an acute international crisis with major powers supporting either Austria or Serbia
• Nov 25 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
• Nov 25 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming

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