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August 1 Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer (died 2008) Donald Seawell, theater producer and newspaper publisher (died 2015) August 2 – Ann Dvorak, actress (died 1979) [10] August 9 – Anne Brown, African American soprano (died 2009 in Norway) August 11 – Norman Levinson, mathematician (died 1975) August 13 – Ben Hogan, golfer (died 1997)
On January 1, 1912, a new labor law took effect in Massachusetts reducing the working week of 56 hours to 54 hours for women and children. Workers opposed the reduction if it reduced their weekly take-home pay. The first two weeks of 1912, the unions tried to learn how the owners of the mills would deal with the new law. [6]
The War of 1912 (Spanish: Levantamiento Armado de los Independientes de Color, lit. 'Armed Uprising of the Independents of Color'), also known as the Little Race War , the Negro Rebellion , or The Twelve , was a series of protests and uprisings in 1912 in Cuba , which saw conflict between Afro-Cuban rebels and the armed forces of Cuba.
The United States occupation of Nicaragua from August 4, 1912, to January 2, 1933, was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began on August 4, 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the United States in Nicaragua throughout this period.
1912: From churches came floods of melody. Chorus and soloists sang 1911 out and welcomed 1912. The snow and ice furnished a winter crispness.
In the midst of the war, the federal budget soared from $1 billion in fiscal year 1916 to $19 billion in fiscal year 1919. [222] In addition to spending on its own military build-up, Wall Street in 1914–1916 and the Treasury in 1917–1918 provided large loans to the Allied countries, thus financing the war effort of Britain and France. [223]
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