1912 Events

1912 Elihu Root Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man"...
1912 Joseph Stalin Becomes Editor of 'Pravda'
Stalin served as the editor of Pravda {Truth} in 1913 and wrote his first treatise, Marxism and the National Question in 1914. Just prior to its publication, Stalin was exiled to Siberia ...
1912 Louis Armstrong drops out of school
After dropping out of the Fisk School at eleven, Armstrong joined a quartet of boys that sang in the streets for money. But he also started to get into trouble. Cornet player Bunk Johnson...
1912
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1912 Sea Scouting Becomes an Official Program of the Boy Scouts of America
Almost from the start of the Scouting program in the US in 1910, the issue of the "older boy problem" arose. The age of Boy Scouts ran from 12 to 17. There was always a problem of how ...
1912
to 1933
U.S. Occupation of Nicaragua
The United States occupied Nicaragua from 1912-1933 and intervened in the country several times before that. The US military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to prevent the constr...
1912 Jan 6 New Mexico is the 47th State Admitted to the Union
Struggle for Statehood In no part of the United States has there ever been such a protracted struggle for self-government as in New Mexico. In no other case has statehood been so long ...
1912 Jan 22 Overseas Railway Linking The Florida Keys To The Mainland Is Completed
On January 22, 1912, the nearly twenty thousand residents of the city of Key West, Florida, located on a small island some 128 miles south of the Florida peninsula, observed the completio...
1912 Feb 14 Arizona is the 48th State Admitted to the Union
Arizona became a U.S. state on February 14, 1912. The major result being the end to the territorial colonization of Continental America. Arizona was the 48th state admitted into the U.S. ...
1912 Mar 12 The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is Founded
Girl Scouting in the United States of America began on 12 March 1912 when Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout troop meeting of 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia. Low, w...
1912 Mar 13 Quebec Bulldogs win Stanley Cup
The 1911–12 NHA season was the third season of the now defunct National Hockey Association. Four teams played 18 games each. The Quebec Bulldogs would win the league championship and take...
1912 Mar 27 Helen Herron Taft And The Viscountess Chinda Plant Yoshino Cherry Trees On The Potomac River
On March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River Tid...
1912 Apr 14 RMS Titanic Sinks After Striking an Iceberg
Walter Belford was Titanic's night chief baker. "We were working on the fifth deck amidships baking for the next day. There was a shudder all through the ship about 11:40 PM The provision...
1912 Apr 16 David Langton Is Born
David Muir Langton (born Basil Muir Langton-Dodds; 16 April 1912 – 25 April 1994) was a Scottish actor who is best remembered for playing Richard Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Dow...
1912 Apr 20 Fenway Park Opens
After two rain delays, Fenway Park finally hosted its first professional baseball game on April 20, 1912. (The first official game played in Fenway actually occurred on April 9 when the S...
1912 May 5
to 1912 Jul 22
 Games of the V Olympiad Held in Stockholm, Sweden
The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. For the first time, c...
1912 Jun 22 The Progressive Party Is Born
On the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Republican progressives reco...
1912 Jul 7 Houdini Performs Overboard Box Escape
Another one of Houdini's most famous publicity stunts (Dalton) was to escape from a nailed and roped packing crate after it had been lowered into the water. Houdini first performed the es...
1912 Jul 31 Milton Friedman is Born
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is best known among scholars for...
1912 Aug Jane Addams seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination for the Progressive Party
At the first national convention of the Progressive Party, in Chicago in August of 1912, all observers noted the prominence of women, women delegates, women leaders. The Kansas newspaper ...
1912 Aug 15 Julia Child is Born
Julia Child (August 15, 1912 - August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream t...
1912 Aug 23 Gene Kelly is Born
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century film...
1912 Sep 2 Arthur Rose Eldred Becomes the first Eagle Scout
Eldred completed the required 21 merit badges for Eagle in April of 1912. In the August 1912 issue of Boy’s Life, Eldred was listed in the Honor Roll section as having received the follo...
1912 Sep 21 Houdini Performs The Chinese Water Torture Cell
In 1912, the vast number of imitators prompted Houdini to replace his Milk Can act with the Chinese Water Torture Cell. In this escape, Houdini's feet would be locked in stocks, and he wo...
1912 Sep 28 William Christopher Handy's "Memphis Blues" Is Published
On September 28, 1912, the publication of William Christopher Handy's "Memphis Blues" changed the course of American popular song. Handy introduced an African-American folk tradition, the...
1912 Oct 8
to 1912 Oct 16
 1912 World Series
In the 1912 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Giants four games to three (with one tie). This dramatic series showcased great pitching from Giant Christy Mathewson and f...
1912 Oct 17 Minneapolis Vigilance Committee formed
Minneapolis is the first to respond to the Printer's Ink call to form a Vigilance Committee (which in 1916 changes its name to Better Business Bureau).
1912 Dec 22 Lady Bird Johnson is Born
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. T...