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The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in The London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.
October 5 – Lewis Boss, astronomer (b. 1846) October 6 – William A. Peffer, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1891 to 1897 (born 1831) 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)
February 19 – Saul Chaplin, American film composer (died 1997) February 19 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (died 2010) February 21 – Arline Judge, American actress (died 1974) February 26 – Dane Clark, American actor (died 1998) March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor (died 2009) April 5 – Gordon Jones, American actor (died 1963)
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Musketeers of Pig Alley: D. W. Griffith: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish Drama: A New Cure for Divorce: William Garwood, Mignon Anderson
The Land Beyond the Sunset is a 1912 short, silent drama film which tells the story of a young boy, oppressed by his grandmother, who goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group. It stars Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel , Walter Edwin, and Bigelow Cooper .
1912–1941: China: The disorders which began with the overthrow of the dynasty during Kuomintang rebellion in 1912, which were redirected by the invasion of China by Japan, led to demonstrations and landing parties for the protection of U.S. interests in China continuously and at many points from 1912 on to 1941. The guard at Beijing and along ...
Win Hickey, American socialite, politician, First Lady of Wyoming and one of the first woman to serve in the Wyoming Senate (d. 2007) May 29 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (d. 1981) May 30. Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d ...
Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertrude are five sisters growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1912. The book follows them through a year of their childhood, as they deal with mundane chores, find joy in eating candy in bed and collecting used books from their father's junk shop, recover from scarlet fever, and celebrate Jewish holidays such as Purim and Sukkot as well as the ...