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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 ...
March 1 – Albert Berry makes the world's first or second parachute jump from an airplane in flight, at Jefferson Barracks Military Post in Missouri. March 6 – Oreo cookies introduced. [1] March 12 – The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded by Juliette Gordon Low, in Savannah, Georgia.
Three poets meet and work out the principles of Imagist poetry. The most prominent of them, Ezra Pound, writes about the formulation in 1954: [4] In the spring or early summer of 1912, 'H.D.' [Hilda Doolittle], Richard Aldington and myself decided that we were agreed upon the three principles following:
He broke off with it in 1906, but sold the rights to the unfinished work in June 1911. Conrad continues to work on the book, while the first chapters appear weekly in the Herald. He completes it on March 26. [1] March 3 – Frieda Weekley meets D. H. Lawrence in Nottingham. [2]
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743273558. Flehinger, Brett, ed. The 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism: A Brief History with Documents (2002) Gould, Lewis L. (2008). Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Books written or published in the year 1912. Books portal; 1907; ... Pages in category "1912 books" The following 8 pages are ...
2 February – With Our King and Queen Through India, a 2 1 ⁄ 2-hour Kinemacolor feature film of the Delhi Durbar of 1911 made by Charles Urban, is first shown at the Scala Theatre, London. [4] 26 February–6 April – National coal strike of 1912. [5] 1 March – suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London, especially around ...
See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes.