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January 6 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state (see History of New Mexico). January 11–March 12 – 1912 Lawrence textile strike ("Bread and Roses" strike): Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, strike in response to a pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the working week.
1912 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the ...
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In the early 19th century, collection intensified, and the meaning of "statistics" broadened to include the discipline concerned with the collection, summary, and analysis of data. Today, data is collected and statistics are computed and widely distributed in government, business, most of the sciences and sports, and even for many pastimes.
The official opening of the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa was postponed to June 12, 1912, due to the death of Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays, who perished aboard the Titanic on April 15. [115] The Colorado Mountain Club, which was instrumental in the creation of the Rocky Mountain National Park, was founded. [116]
The 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003). Gable, John A. The Bullmoose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. (Kennikat Press, 1978). Gould, Lewis L. Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics (2009). JSTOR j.ctv2rsfczd.
The primary battles leading up to the 1912 Democratic Convention are a pivotal event in Taylor Caldwell's 1972 novel Captains and the Kings. In the novel, the fictional Irish-Catholic Rory Daniel Armagh, a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania , emerges as the front-runner for the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination after beating Woodrow Wilson in ...
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Columbia University professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones. The book explores the history of data and statistics from the end of the 18th century to the present day. [1]