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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 ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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 ...
The Book of Knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the Grolier Society. Originally largely a reprint of the British Children's Encyclopaedia with revisions related to the United States by Holland Thompson , over time the encyclopedia evolved into a new entity entirely.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Other events of 1912 History of Germany • Timeline • Years: Events in the year 1912 in Germany. Incumbents
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.
The calendar uses 1912, the year of the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in Nanjing, as the first year. The ROC calendar follows the tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year of reign, as did previous dynasties of China. Months and days are numbered according to the Gregorian calendar. The ROC calendar has been in wide ...
19 March – Bill Frankland, immunologist (died 2020) 23 March – Betty Astell, actress (died 2005) 25 March – Melita Norwood, née Sirnis, secret agent (died 2005) 27 March James Callaghan, Prime Minister (died 2005) John Crofton, medical pioneer (died 2009) 29 March – Constance Chapman, actress (died 2003) 5 April