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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 ...
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 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low; 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt shot, but not killed, while campaigning for the presidency; October 30, 1912 – Vice President Sherman dies; 1912 – U.S. presidential election: Woodrow Wilson elected president, Thomas R. Marshall, vice
26 February–6 April – National coal strike of 1912. [5] 1 March – suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London, especially around Oxford Street. [6] 16 March – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time". He is not seen again. [2]
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 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 ...
In March, Lala Har Dayal wrote an article for Modern Review entitled "Marx: A Modern Rishi", which is believed to be the first Indian article on Marx. [10]Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai wrote the biography of Karl Marx (1912) in Malayalam, which was the first Marx biography in any Indian language.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... The following events occurred in March 1912: March 1, 1912: Albert Berry becomes first person to parachute from ...