Historical Events In 1912

Oct 18   Beginning of the first Balkan War on this day in history.   

Oct 18   Italo-Turkish war ends on this day in history.   

Oct 19   On this day in history j E B B P Q C Dwyer, cricketer (Aus-born Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies   

Oct 19   In the year 1912 tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control   

Oct 20   Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC on this day in history.   

Oct 21   In the year 1912 carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist   

Oct 24   Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Oct 25   In the year 1912 jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)   

Oct 26   Don[ald] Siegel, Chicago IL, director (Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist) in the year 1912.   

Oct 26   Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup) on this day in history.   

Oct 27   Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4) on this day in history.   

Oct 29   The size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order on this day in history.   

Oct 30   Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1912.   

Oct 30   Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle) on this day in history.   

Oct 31   Dale Evans, [Frances Butts], Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show) in the year 1912.   

Nov 02   Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer on this day in history.   

Nov 03   On this day in history alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)   

Nov 04   H "Giff" Vivian, cricketer (father of Graham 1st Test for NZ at 18) on this day in history.   

Nov 05   Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage on this day in history.   

Nov 05   On this day in history natalie Schaeffer, Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island)   

Nov 05   In the year 1912 woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)   

Nov 05   On this day in history woodrow Wilson is elected U.S. President, beating challenger Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent William Howard Taft.   

Nov 06   Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70 in the year 1912.   

Nov 07   The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio on this day in history.   

Nov 08   Jean-Louis Martinet, composer in the year 1912.   

Nov 09   Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest in the year 1912.   

Nov 10   On this day in history salvador Contreras, composer   

Nov 11   In the year 1912 cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch   

Nov 11   In the year 1912 joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75   

Nov 12   Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants) on this day in history.   

Nov 12   Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58 in the year 1912.   

Nov 12   Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica in the year 1912.   

Nov 12   The bodies of the members of Scott's Antarctic expedition are found in the year 1912.   

Nov 13   In the year 1912 the birth of Eugene Ionesco, Romanian born French Playwright   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole   

Jan 01   Victor Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader was born in the year 1912.   

Jan 01   In the year 1912 birth of boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)   

Jan 02   Andre Ameller, composer was born in the year 1912.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anna Lee, Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)   

Jan 02   Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer was born in the year 1912.   

Jan 02   Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion) was born in the year 1912.   

Jan 03   Robert Flemyng, Liverpool Eng, actor (Windom's Way, Young Winston) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1912 felix Dahn, writer, dies at 77   

Jan 14   On this day in history otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant & Epigones), dies at 71   

Jan 16   In the year 1912 georg Heym, writer, dies at 24   

Jan 28   On this day in history death of gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)   

Jan 29   On this day in history hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54   

Feb 10   Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies in the year 1912.   

Feb 16   Edgar Evans, British explorer (Antarctica), dies in the year 1912.   

Feb 17   Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57 in the year 1912.