1912 TimelineThis Year - Radio U.S. passes law to control radio stations.
This Year - Radio Feedback and heterodyne systems usher in modern radio.
This Year - Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece attack the Ottoman Empire in the 1st Balkan War, resulting in the creation of the nation of Albania.
This Year - A large Hindu immigrant population is expelled from the US West Coast by anti-Indian racial riots.
This Year - Military Japan constructs its first dreadnought battleship
January00 - MIlitary British War Staff established
00 - Caillaux ousted in France and followed by Poincar
00 - French Senate initiates an investigative committee into Cailloux's role in the Agadir Crisis and suspicions about Calloux's "Germanophilia" became widespread.
00 - Reichstag elections with S.P.D. emerging as the strongest party
01 - Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic.
03 - South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free.
04 - Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr.
06 - New Mexico becomes 47th state.
09 - US marines invade Honduras.
10 - Caillaux govt in France resigns.
14 - Raymond Poincar? becomes premier of France.
18 - English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before. s.dec 14 1911
29 - Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54.
29 - Labor Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA.
February07 - Kaiser announces Army and Navy Bills
08 - Haldane arrives in Berlin for talks
08 - Aviation 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla.
12 - China adopts Gregorian calendar.
14 - 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct.
22 - Aviation J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph.
26 - Labor Coal miners strike in England settle on mar 01 1912.
March00 - Churchill announces enlarging the RN, and removal of fleet from Malta to home waters (and with the French realigning their fleet)
05 - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die.
07 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole. s.dec 14 1911
12 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low.
13 - Balkan League between Serbia and Bulgaria formed
16 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC.
17 - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick.
22 - New German naval program begun marking failure of Anglo-German talks on naval forces
23 - Dixie Cup invented.
27 - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC.
29 - Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far".
29 - Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies.
30 - French protectorate in Morocco established.
April00 - Turks close Straits fearing Italian attack with economic results in southern Russia creating tensions there 2 week period
02 - Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.
04 - Labor Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia.
06 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars.
08 - Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200.
09 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY.
10 - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage.
11 - Ireland 3rd Home Rule bill introduced in Commons
11 - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid.
12 - England The Titanic begins its maiden voyage from Southhampton
12 - Clara Barton, organizer (American Red Cross), dies at 90.
13 - Royal Flying Corps forms l.RAF.
14 - Pan American Union forms.
15 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on.
16 - Aviation Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel.
19 - Sports 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of NY in 2:21:18.2.
20 - Literature Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies.
27 - Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands.
May01 - Beverly Hills Hotel opens.
04 - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes.
07 - Literature Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer.
29 - Greece joins Balkan League
29 - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break.
30 - Aviation Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies.
30 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua.
31 - US marines land on Cuba.
June04 - Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law.
05 - US marines invade Cuba (3nd time).
19 - Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College.
July12 - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC.
31 - US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights.
August14 - 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua. u.1925.
22 - Pope Gregory IX, dies. re.List of Popes
24 - Territory of Alaska organizes.
24 - US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition govt.
27 - Literature Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes".
September03 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy.
15 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania.
23 - 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released.
28 - SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die.
October04 - Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed.
08 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War.
15 - Peace between Italy and Turkey completed
November18 - Albania declares independence from Turkey.
25 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill.
27 - Albanian National Flag adopted.
27 - Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms.
28 - Albania declares it's Indepenence from Turkey.
December00 - Haldane tells German Ambassador that England would aid France if attacked by Germany and could not allow the balance of power to be changed
16 - Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia.
21 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war.
23 - Silent Film 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy".
24 - Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards.
28 - National Council of Young Israel convenes.
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