Page 9: Historical Events In 1912
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Jun 06 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century 


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


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


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


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) 


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