1912 Calendar
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1912 Historical Event(s)
January 23, 1912
– The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
February 18, 1912
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
March 30, 1912
– Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
June 6, 1912
– The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
September 4, 1912
– Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
September 25, 1912
– Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
October 14, 1912
– While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
October 18, 1912
– First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
November 12, 1912
– The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
December 8, 1912
– Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Who Were Born On 1912?
January 8, 1912
– Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist and 4th United States Deputy Attorney General
March 14, 1912
– W. Graham Claytor, Jr. Southern Railway and later Amtrak President (d. 1994)
March 29, 1912
– Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
June 9, 1912
– Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
July 11, 1912
– William F. Walsh, American politician (d. 2011)
August 2, 1912
– Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010)
October 5, 1912
– Fritz Fischer, Nazi war criminal (d. 2003)
October 6, 1912
– Perkins Bass, American politician and former Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire (d. 2011)
October 22, 1912
– George N. Leighton, American jurist
November 8, 1912
– Stylianos Pattakos, Greek army officer and member of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974