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October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (born 1855) November 25 – Isidor Rayner, U.S. senator from Maryland from 1905 to 1912 (born 1850) November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, oil pioneer (born 1870) December 18 – Will Carleton, poet (born 1845) December 29 – Philip H. Cooper, admiral ...
1912: From churches came floods of melody. Chorus and soloists sang 1911 out and welcomed 1912. The snow and ice furnished a winter crispness.
13 January – Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January. 30 March – Treaty of Fez, Sultan Abdelhafid gives up the sovereignty of Morocco, making it a protectorate of France.
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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Dated April 20, 1912, the front page of British newspaper The Daily Mirror shows two women in Southampton - the English port city from where the Titanic set sail - waiting for a list of survivors ...
October 14, 1912: John Schrank shoots ... The longest drought in U.S. history began in Bagdad in San Bernardino County, California. ... Today, the Riga Zoo houses ...
July 14, 1912: Ken McArthur at the entrance to Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Ken McArthur, a policeman from Johannesburg, South Africa, won the Olympic marathon in 2 hours and 36 minutes. [60] Francisco Lázaro of Portugal became the first athlete to die in the modern Olympics, collapsing in the heat during the race and dying the next day. [61]