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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 ...
Sherman, 57 years old, died at 9:42 pm at his home in Utica, New York from acute kidney failure. His physician, Dr. Fayette H. Peck, said that Sherman's decline had been caused by the strain of his acceptance speech on August 24, when the Republican National Convention had re-nominated him as President William Howard Taft 's running mate.
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 ...
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:
January 15 – Celia Dale, English fiction writer and book reviewer (died 2011) [17] January 28 – Alison Adburgham (born Margaret Vere Alison Haig), English social historian and journalist (died 1997) January 30 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian (died 1989) February 10 – Ena Lamont Stewart, Scottish playwright (died 2006)
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 ...
[8] 25–27 August – the wet summer climaxes in a major rainstorm across England, causing floods particularly in Norfolk and Norwich. [9] September – the tradition of the Blackpool Illuminations begins. [10] 31 October – Robert Baden-Powell marries Olave St Clair Soames at Parkstone. [11] 5 November – establishment of the British Board ...