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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.
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 become the
second expedition to reach the South Pole.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift.
February 12 - Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
February 14 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
March 1 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
March 5 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for
reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
March 7 -
Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
March 12 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) are founded.
March 30 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
April 15 - Sinking of the S.S. Titanic.
May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) in
established.
June 6-June 8 - eruption of Novarupta in Alaska, second largest volcanic eruption in
historic time.
July 30 - In Japanese History, end of the Meiji Era and beginning of the Taisho Era.
August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New
York, New York.
October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore
Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the
bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson
wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base
was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore
Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.
November 11 - Khios declares its independence from the ottoman empire.
November 27 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
November 28 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 - First Balkan War ends - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the
Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
Sea Scouting begins under the aegis of the Boy Scouts of America
Kazimierz Funk
identifies vitamins.
The first blues song, "The Memphis Blues," is published.
Births:
January 7 -
Charles Addams, cartoonist.
January 8 -
José Ferrer, actor (d. 1992).
January 14 -
Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984).
January 16 -
Franz Tumler, Austrian narrator (d. 1998).
January 21 -
Antonia Elizabeth van den Houten.
January 26 -
Johanna Naaijen.
January 28 -
Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (d. 1956).
January 30 -
Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989).
February 6 -
Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945).
February 11 -
Roy Fuller, English poet/novelist.
February 11 -
Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla, Czechoslovakian, pianist.
February 18 -
Heinz Kühn, politician (d. 1992).
February 19 -
Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979).
February 20 -
Pierre Boulle, author.
February 27 -
Lawrence Durrell, writer (d. 1990).
February 28 -
Elisabeth Katholina van den Houten.
February 28 -
Willem van den Houten.
March 5 -
David Astor, British newspaper publisher.
March 8 -
Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003).
March 12 -
Irving Layton, poet.
March 14 -
Les Brown, band leader (d. 2001).
March 15 -
Lightnin' Hopkins, musician (d. 1982).
March 16 -
Pat Nixon, actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993).
March 17 -
Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (d. 1987).
March 18 -
Lucien Laurin, Secretariat's Hall of Fame trainer (d. 2000).
March 22 -
Karl Malden, actor.
March 23 -
Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer (d. 1977).
March 27 -
James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
March 31 -
Hermann Höcherl, politician (d. 1989).
April 5 -
Gerbrand van den Houten.
April 8 -
Sonja Henie, Olympic and World Champion figure skater (d. 1969).
April 20 -
Willem (Mosje) van den Houten.
April 26 -
A.E. van Vogt, science fiction writer (d. 2000).
April 27 -
Jan Willem van den Houten.
April 28 -
Odette Sansom, SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1995).
May 9 -
Pedro Armendáriz, actor (d. 1963).
May 12 -
Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor.
May 14 -
Ben Hogan, golfer (d. 1997).
May 15 -
Adriaan Leendert de Vin.
May 16 -
Studs Terkel, writer.
May 18 -
Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003).
May 18 -
Perry Como, singer (d. 2001).
May 23 -
John Payne, actor (d. 1989).
May 27 -
Sam Snead (d. 2002).
May 28 -
Patrick White, author (d. 1990).
May 30 -
Joseph Stein, playwright.
May 31 -
Alfred Deller, singer, early modern countertenor (d. 1979).
June 1 -
Everarda Adriana Jochems.
June 13 -
Marinus Baltus van den Houten.
June 23 -
Alan Turing, mathematician (d. 1954).
June 26 -
Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980).
July 1 -
David R. Brower, major environmentalist (d. 2000).
July 6 -
Rino van den Houten.
July 14 -
Woody Guthrie, folk musician (d. 1969).
July 17 -
Art Linkletter, television host.
July 18 -
Pietje Johanna van Dam.
August 14 -
John Jacob Astor V, member of the Astor family.
August 30 -
Nancy Wake, WW II heroine.
September 5 -
Marinus van den Houten.
September 5 -
John Cage, American composer.
September 6 -
Boudewina van den Houten.
September 12 -
Jacques Fath, French couturier (d. 1954).
September 19 -
Kurt Sanderling, conductor.
September 21 -
Chuck Jones, animator.
September 22 -
Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003).
September 29 -
Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director.
October 17 - Pope
John Paul I (d. 1978).
October 21 -
Georg Solti, conductor (d. 1997).
October 22 -
Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian born WW II hero (d. 1994).
November 4 -
Vadim Salmanov, composer.
October 27 -
Conlon Nancarrow, composer (d. 1997).
November 21 -
Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (d. 1982).
November 26 -
Eugene Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994).
December 12 -
Henry Armstrong, American boxing champion (d. 1988).
December 18 -
Maarten van den Houten.
(unknown) -
Laurence Henry Hicks, composer.
Still born:
June 15 -
Still born van den Houten (boy).
Deaths:
February 5 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
February 16 -
Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk priest, saint.
March 29 -
Robert Falcon Scott, explorer.
March 30 -
Karl May, author.
April 15 - Most of crew and passengers on the Titanic.
April 15 -
John Jacob Astor IV, businessman aboard the Titanic.
April 15 -
Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman, aboard the Titanic.
May 14 -
August Strindberg.
May 25 -
Austin Lane Crothers, politician.
May 30 -
Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane.
August 27 -
Cornelis Catharinus Antonius Dales.
September 17 -
Dina Cornelia van den Houten.
December 31 -
Dingeman Quant.
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