Page 9: Historical Events In 1912

Jun 08   Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures   

Jun 08   Ian Morrow, company director   

Jun 09   Edgar Evans, tenor.   

Jun 10   Leslie Brown, Bishop (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)   

Jun 11   Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74.   

Jun 11   Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer   

Jun 12   Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist   

Jun 12   Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies.   

Jun 13   Capt Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane   

Jun 13   Mary Wickes, St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc).   

Jun 14   E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer).   

Jun 15   26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)   

Jun 16   Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor   

Jun 17   Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument).   

Jun 18   Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan)   

Jun 19   Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words and Music)   

Jun 19   Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A and L State College.   

Jun 20   NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd and 3rd twice)   

Jun 21   Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)   

Jun 22   Vit Nejedly, composer.   

Jun 23   Alan Turing, Founder of computer science is born   

Jun 23   Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine)   

Jun 24   Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator and cake connoisseur).   

Jun 25   Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65.   

Jun 25   Virginia Lacy Jones, US librarian/presidential advisor.   

Jun 26   Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna.   

Jun 27   Audrey Christie, Chic Ill, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange)   

Jun 27   George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies.   

Jun 28   Audrey Langford, singing teacher   

Jun 29   John Toland, US, political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971).   

Jun 30   Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)   

Jul 01   Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier   

Jul 02   Tom Richardson, cricketer (88 wickets in 14 Tests for England), dies.   

Jul 03   Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals   

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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),