1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1912 - Events. 1912 - January-March. January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 5 - Prague Party Conference January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the ...

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1912 in aviation - January. January 10 - Lieutenant commander Charles Samson flies a Short S.38 from the deck of battleship HMS Africa moored in the River Medway, England, becoming the first British naval aviator. 1912 in aviation - February. February 22 - Jules Vedrines becomes the first pilot to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h). He makes his flight in a Deperdussin monoplane near Pau, France. 1912 in aviation - March< ...

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See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. 1912 in literature - Events. Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf. 1912 in literature - New books. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Between two stoo ...

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Baseball had its first appearance at the 1912 Summer Olympics as an exhibition sport. A game was played between the United States, the nation where the game was developed, and Sweden, the host nation. The game was held on 17 July 1912 in Stockholm. The Americans were represented by various members of the American Olympic delegation, while the Swedish team was the Vesterås Baseball Club, which had been formed in 1910 as the first baseball club in Sweden. Four of the Americans p ...

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Father Divine (c. 1880 – September 10, 1965), was an African-American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend General Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "the Messenger" and George Baker early in his life. He founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congr ...

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Alexander Blok (Александр Александрович Блок, November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical poet that Russia produced after Alexander Pushkin. A powerful influence on the pre-revolutionary Russian society, he is sometimes compared with William Butler Yeats for the visionary quality of his lush, sonorous verse. Alexander Blok - Early life and influences. Blok was born in St Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives we ...

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The aerial bombing of cities became a common tactic in World War II. Aerial bombing of cities - Italian-Turkish War of 1911-1912. The very first aerial act of aggression occurred during the Italian-Turkish War of 1911-1912 in North Africa. Italy had been using aircraft to monitor enemy troop movements and search for Turkish artillery positions. One Italian pilot, a Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, realized that the airplane could be used for more than simple reconnaissance. The event occurred over a ...

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February Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2 flown by designer Geoffrey de Havilland. March March 1 - AEA Cygnet ...

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1912 in rail transport - Unknown date births. W. Graham Claytor Jr., president of Amtrak 1982-1993 (d. 1994). ...

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1912 in rail transport - January events. January 3 - Canadian Pacific Railway leases the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia. January 22 The Florida East Coast Railway opens its rail connection to Key West. 1912 in rail transport - February events. February 27 - Pacific Great Eastern Railway (predecessor of the British Columbia Railway) is incorporated to build a line from Vancouver north to a connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific R ...

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Tennis at the 1912 Summer Olympics - By Country. (Host nation in bold.) ...

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Designed by Aanderud Larsen, the Endurance was built at the Framnaes shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway and fully completed on December 17, 1912. She was built under the supervision of master wood shipbuilder Christian Jacobsen, who was renown for insisting that all men employed under him not just be skilled shipwrights, but also be experienced in seafaring aboard whaling or sealing ships. Every detail of her construct ...

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(Host nation in bold.) Top medal-collecting nations: (for the full table, see 1912 Summer Olympics medal count) ...

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U.S. presidential election 1912 - Republican Party nomination. The Republican Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois 8 June to 22 June. Even though Roosevelt had won all but one of the primaries, Republicans renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, incidentally making Sherman the first vice president since Richard M. Johnson to be nominated for reelection. On the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican ...

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Notes: * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1 Since 9 Conservatives were elected by acclamation, i.e., without any polling of votes, the total votes for the Conservative Party and the overall total as well as the popular vote are somewhat misleading. A potential 14,086 voters did not have the opportunity to exercise their franchise. Given a voter turnout of almost 50% in other ri ...

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1912 Triangular Tournament - First Test: Australia v South Africa at Manchester 27-28 May 1912. Australia won by an innings and 88 runs [1] Australia batted first, scoring completing their first innings score of 448 on the first day, with centuries for Charles Kelleway and Warren Bardsley. Sid Pegler took 6 wickets for 105 runs. South Africa were 16 for 1 at the close. South Africa were bowled out for 265 on the second day (with a century for Aubrey Faulkner and Bill Whitty taking 5 wickets for 55 ...

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Administrators and Government Residents of the Northern Territory after transfer of control to the Commonwealth Government: Administrator of the Northern Territory - Administrator 1912 to 1919. John Anderson Gilruth; 25 March 1912 Administrator of the Northern Territory - Director 1919 to 1921. Henry Earnest Carey; 1 August 1919 Administrator of the Northern Territor ...

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Shackleton sailed with Endurance from Plymouth, England on August 6, 1914 and set course for Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was Endurance's first major cruising since her completion and amounted to a shakedown cruise. The trip across the Atlantic took more than two months. Built for the ice, her hull was considered by many of its crew too rounded for the open ocean. On October 26, 1914 Endurance sailed from Buenos Aires to her last port of call, the Grytviken whaling station on the island of South Georgia off the s ...

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