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Events on the year of 1912 in history

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01 Jan 1912 Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
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01 Jan 1912 The Republic of China is established.
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03 Jan 1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
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04 Jan 1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
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04 Jan 1912 The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
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05 Jan 1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
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05 Jan 1912 The Prague Party Conference takes place.
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06 Jan 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
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06 Jan 1912 German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
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06 Jan 1912 New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
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08 Jan 1912 The African National Congress is founded.
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09 Jan 1912 US marines invade Honduras
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10 Jan 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
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10 Jan 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
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11 Jan 1912 Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
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12 Jan 1912 -47
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13 Jan 1912 -40
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14 Jan 1912 Raymond Poincar
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17 Jan 1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
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17 Jan 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
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17 Jan 1912 English explorer Robert Falcon Scott & his expedition reach the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there 1 month before
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18 Jan 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
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23 Jan 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
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29 Jan 1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
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02 Feb 1912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
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07 Feb 1912 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
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08 Feb 1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida
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09 Feb 1912 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
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10 Feb 1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs Australia at MCG
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12 Feb 1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
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12 Feb 1912 China adopts the Gregorian calendar
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12 Feb 1912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates
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13 Feb 1912 England regains cricket's Ashes
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14 Feb 1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
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14 Feb 1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
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14 Feb 1912 In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
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14 Feb 1912 Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
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14 Feb 1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
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15 Feb 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78
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16 Feb 1912 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
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20 Feb 1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
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22 Feb 1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 km/h
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25 Feb 1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
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26 Feb 1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
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27 Feb 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
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28 Feb 1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
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01 Mar 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York City
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01 Mar 1912 Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
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05 Mar 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
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05 Mar 1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
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06 Mar 1912 Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
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07 Mar 1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
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07 Mar 1912 Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
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11 Mar 1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
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11 Mar 1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Qu
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12 Mar 1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St, New York City
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12 Mar 1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
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12 Mar 1912 Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
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12 Mar 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
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13 Mar 1912 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
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13 Mar 1912 Stanley Cup: Qu
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14 Mar 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
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15 Mar 1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
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16 Mar 1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington DC
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17 Mar 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
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22 Mar 1912 The State of Bihar, India was formed out of the State of Bengal.
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23 Mar 1912 Dixie Cup invented
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27 Mar 1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC
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29 Mar 1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
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29 Mar 1912 Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
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30 Mar 1912 Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate.
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30 Mar 1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
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02 Apr 1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
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02 Apr 1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
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02 Apr 1912 The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
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04 Apr 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
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04 Apr 1912 Chinese Republic proclaimed in Tibet
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06 Apr 1912 Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
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08 Apr 1912 Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
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09 Apr 1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard)
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09 Apr 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
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10 Apr 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
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10 Apr 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
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11 Apr 1912 Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
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13 Apr 1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
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14 Apr 1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
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14 Apr 1912 The Titanic, launched on 31 May 1911, on route from Southampton to New York with 2200 passengers, strikes iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia at approximately 11:30pm, and sinks early the next morning (1500+ death toll)
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14 Apr 1912 Pan American Union forms
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15 Apr 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
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15 Apr 1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
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15 Apr 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM in North Atlantic as the band plays on
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16 Apr 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
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16 Apr 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the English Channel
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16 Apr 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
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17 Apr 1912 Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
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17 Apr 1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
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18 Apr 1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
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19 Apr 1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of New York in 2:21:18.2
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20 Apr 1912 Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
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20 Apr 1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11
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20 Apr 1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
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22 Apr 1912 Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
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26 Apr 1912 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
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27 Apr 1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in the Netherlands
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29 Apr 1912 108
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29 Apr 1912 Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel", premieres in Berlin
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01 May 1912 Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
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01 May 1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
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04 May 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
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04 May 1912 Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
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05 May 1912 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
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05 May 1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4 / 22 OS)
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07 May 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
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08 May 1912 Paramount Pictures is founded.
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11 May 1912 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4
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13 May 1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in England
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13 May 1912 The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
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13 May 1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England
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15 May 1912 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
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15 May 1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended
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18 May 1912 The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
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18 May 1912 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
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18 May 1912 Philadelphia A's beat Detroit Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
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19 May 1912 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
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28 May 1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs South Africa
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29 May 1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
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30 May 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
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31 May 1912 US marines land on Cuba
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01 Jun 1912 Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
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04 Jun 1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
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04 Jun 1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
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04 Jun 1912 Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
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05 Jun 1912 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
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06 Jun 1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
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07 Jun 1912 St. Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
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07 Jun 1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
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08 Jun 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
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10 Jun 1912 The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
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13 Jun 1912 Captain Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane
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13 Jun 1912 New York Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
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15 Jun 1912 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)
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19 Jun 1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A&L State College
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20 Jun 1912 New York Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
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20 Jun 1912 New York Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
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26 Jun 1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
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30 Jun 1912 The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
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04 Jul 1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St. Louis Browns, 7-0
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04 Jul 1912 Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Jul 1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
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06 Jul 1912 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
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08 Jul 1912 G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge
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08 Jul 1912 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
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08 Jul 1912 Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
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10 Jul 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
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12 Jul 1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC
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14 Jul 1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
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15 Jul 1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
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16 Jul 1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske
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17 Jul 1912 IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
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18 Jul 1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
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20 Jul 1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
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22 Jul 1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
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25 Jul 1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
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30 Jul 1912 Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
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31 Jul 1912 RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
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31 Jul 1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
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02 Aug 1912 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at Country Club - Buffalo, New York
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06 Aug 1912 The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
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07 Aug 1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President
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14 Aug 1912 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
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14 Aug 1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
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15 Aug 1912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
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20 Aug 1912 Washingston Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
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20 Aug 1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
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21 Aug 1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia
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22 Aug 1912 England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
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22 Aug 1912 Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
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24 Aug 1912 New York City ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious US olympians
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24 Aug 1912 Territory of Alaska organized
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24 Aug 1912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the govt
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25 Aug 1912 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
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25 Aug 1912 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
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26 Aug 1912 32nd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
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27 Aug 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
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30 Aug 1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
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02 Sep 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
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04 Sep 1912 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
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04 Sep 1912 Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
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06 Sep 1912 New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
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07 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
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09 Sep 1912 J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph / 172 km/h)
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11 Sep 1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
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11 Sep 1912 Philadelphia Athletics Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
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12 Sep 1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
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15 Sep 1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
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15 Sep 1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
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17 Sep 1912 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn and hits 4 singles
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19 Sep 1912 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
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19 Sep 1912 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
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22 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9 / 7 / 12)
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22 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in a game, for 2nd time in 11 days
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23 Sep 1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
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23 Sep 1912 Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)
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25 Sep 1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
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27 Sep 1912 W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912
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28 Sep 1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
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28 Sep 1912 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
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28 Sep 1912 The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
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28 Sep 1912 Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
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29 Sep 1912 French / British troops lands on Samoa
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01 Oct 1912 Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season
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03 Oct 1912 U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
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05 Oct 1912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
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06 Oct 1912 Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
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07 Oct 1912 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
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08 Oct 1912 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
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08 Oct 1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
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08 Oct 1912 First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
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11 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
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14 Oct 1912 While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
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14 Oct 1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
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16 Oct 1912 Boston beats New York Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
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17 Oct 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey
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17 Oct 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
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18 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
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18 Oct 1912 Beginning of the 1st Balkan War
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18 Oct 1912 Italo-Turkish war ends
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19 Oct 1912 Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
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19 Oct 1912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
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20 Oct 1912 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St, New York City
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20 Oct 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
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21 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces.
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23 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
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24 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
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26 Oct 1912 Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
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26 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
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05 Nov 1912 Arizona, Kansas andWisconsin vote for female suffrage
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05 Nov 1912 Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
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05 Nov 1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R)
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05 Nov 1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
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18 Nov 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
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23 Nov 1912 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
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25 Nov 1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
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25 Nov 1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
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27 Nov 1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
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27 Nov 1912 Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
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27 Nov 1912 Albanian National Flag adopted
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27 Nov 1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established
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28 Nov 1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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30 Nov 1912 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
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03 Dec 1912 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
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03 Dec 1912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact
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03 Dec 1912 Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
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06 Dec 1912 China votes for universal human rights
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07 Dec 1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
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08 Dec 1912 Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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12 Dec 1912 R Friml / O Harbachs musical "Firefly, " premieres in New York City
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16 Dec 1912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cents parcel post, issued
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16 Dec 1912 First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
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16 Dec 1912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20
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16 Dec 1912 Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
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18 Dec 1912 The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
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19 Dec 1912 William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
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20 Dec 1912 J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart" premieres in New York NY
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20 Dec 1912 Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite
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21 Dec 1912 Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
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23 Dec 1912 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
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23 Dec 1912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
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24 Dec 1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
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28 Dec 1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
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28 Dec 1912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
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28 Dec 1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
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