Historical Events In 1912

May 05 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

May 05 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm Sweden

May 19 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

May 19 Navy establishes North Atlantic Ice Patrol following RMS Titanic disaster

May 01 Beverly Hills Hotel opens

May 15 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended

May 28 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs South Africa

May 01 Canada issues first five-dollar bank note.

May 13 Royal Flying Corps is established in England

May 29 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

May 30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua

May 18 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies

May 04 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes

May 03 In Halifax Nova Scotia, the first Titanic victims are buried in Halifax

May 31 US marines land on Cuba

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

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