Historical Events In 1912

Jun 07 US army tests the first machine gun mounted on a plane

Jun 05 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)

Jun 07 St Pius X encyclical "On the Indians of South America"

Jun 23 The birth of Alan Turing, Founder of computer science

Jun 04 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses

Jan 03 Canadian Pacific leases Dominion Atlantic Railway Company, Nova Scotia

Jan 09 US marines invade Honduras

Jan 12 -47ºF (-44ºC), Washta IA (state record)

Jan 10 Caillaux government in France resigns

Jan 14 Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France

Jan 03 Canadian Pacific leases Dominion Atlantic Railway Company, Nova Scotia

Jan 28 The birth of Jackson Pollock, American painter

Jan 01 Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic

Jan 18 English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before

Jan 17 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

Jan 17 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

Jan 31 In Prince William Sound, Alaska one of the Largest Earthquakes inthe United States measured at 7.0

Jan 04 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center

Jan 23 The Aermore Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, received a patent for the Aermore Exhaust Horn, a multiple-pipe horn powered by engine exhaust that played a chord like a church organ.

Jan 06 New Mexico becomes 47th state

Jan 13 -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)

Jan 01 Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic

Jan 03 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free

Jan 04 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center

Jan 29 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence MA

Jan 08 The birth of Jose Ferrer, American actor

Jan 03 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free

Jan 31 In Prince William Sound, Alaska one of the Largest Earthquakes inthe United States measured at 7.0

Jan 17 English explorer Robert F. Scott is first to reach the South Pole

Jan 10 World's first flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)

Jan 06 New Mexico becomes 7th American state

Jan 06 New Mexico becomes 47th state

Oct 19 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control

Oct 18 Beginning of the first Balkan War

Oct 18 Italo-Turkish war ends

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