Page 15: Historical Events In 1912

Oct 19   J E B B P Q C Dwyer, cricketer (Aus-born Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies   

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

Oct 20   Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC.   

Oct 21   Carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist   

Oct 24   Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83   

Oct 25   Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins).   

Oct 26   Don[ald] Siegel, Chicago IL, director (Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist)   

Oct 26   Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)   

Oct 27   Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4).   

Oct 29   The size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order.   

Oct 30   Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56.   

Oct 30   Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle)   

Oct 31   Dale Evans, [Frances Butts], Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)   

Nov 02   Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer   

Nov 03   Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89).   

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

Nov 05   Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage.   

Nov 05   Natalie Schaeffer, Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island).   

Nov 05   Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R).   

Nov 05   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   

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

Nov 08   Jean-Louis Martinet, composer   

Nov 09   Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest.   

Nov 10   Salvador Contreras, composer.   

Nov 11   Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch   

Nov 11   Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75.   

Nov 12   Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants)   

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

Nov 12   Robert Scott's diary and dead body are discovered in Antarctica.   

Nov 12   The bodies of the members of Scott's Antarctic expedition are are discovered.   

Nov 13   Eugene Ionesco, Romanian born French Playwright is born   

Nov 14   Barbara Hutton, heiress (Woolworth)   

Nov 16   Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, author (Weird White).   

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Jan 01   Kim philby: British spy/soviet mole   

Jan 01   Victor reuther: Wheeling wv, labor leader   

Jan 01   Boris vladimirovich gnedenko: Russian mathematician   

Jan 02   Andre ameller: Composer   

Jan 02   Anna lee: Ightham england, actress (scruples, lila-general hospital)   

Jan 02   Barbara pentland: Winnipeg canada, composer   

Jan 02   Renato guttuso: Italian painter (flight from etna, crucifixion)   

Jan 03   Robert flemyng: Liverpool eng, actor (windom's way, young winston)   

Jan 03   Felix dahn: Writer,   

Jan 14   Otto liebmann: German philosopher (kant & epigones),   

Jan 16   Georg heym: Writer,   

Jan 28   Gustave de molinari: Belgian economist (b. 1819)   

Jan 29   Hermann bang: Writer,    

Feb 10   Joseph lister: 1st baron lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic),    

Feb 16   Edgar evans: British explorer (antarctica),    

Feb 17   Aloys von aerenthal: Foreign minister (austria-hungary),