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History on the year of 1912

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01 Jan 1912 WW2 Woo Yi was born. 
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07 Jan 1912 WW2 Robert Greim was promoted to the rank of Fähnrich. 
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10 Jan 1912 WW2 Keen to emulate the American Eugene Ely, Lieutenant Charles Samson flew a Short S.27 aircraft off the forecastle of HMS Africa. He then repeated the feat at a naval review at Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom the following May from the battleships Hibernia and London. 
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14 Jan 1912 WW2 General Sadayoshi Ando was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Arisawa Ueda. 
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25 Jan 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold set an altitude record of 1,452 meters, or 4,764 feet. 
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27 Jan 1912 WW2 Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Leutnant. 
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06 Feb 1912 WW2 Eva Braun was born in München in southern Germany. 
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12 Feb 1912 WW2 Josef Blösche was born in Friedland, Austria–Hungary (now Frydlant, Czech Republic). 
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21 Feb 1912 WW2 Zhaohe completed her trials in Britain. 
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01 Mar 1912 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was made the commanding officer of cruiser Ibuki. 
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14 Mar 1912 RELIGIOUS Death of Albert L. Peace, 68. One of the noted Scottish organists of his day, Peace composed many cantatas, organ pieces and hymn tunes __ including the enduring ST. MARGARET, to which the Church today sings George Matheson's "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go."
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19 Mar 1912 WW2 Adolf Galland was born. 
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19 Mar 1912 WW2 Marina Stirbey was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. 
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25 Mar 1912 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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29 Mar 1912 WW2 Hanna Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia, Germany. 
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30 Mar 1912 WW2 France established a full protectorate over Morocco. 
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08 Apr 1912 WW2 Alois Brunner was born. 
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13 Apr 1912 WW2 King George V of the United Kingdom signed a Royal Warrant establishing the Royal Flying Corps. 
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20 Apr 1912 WW2 Rear Admiral Eitaro Kataoka was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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26 Apr 1912 WW2 Lieutenant General Yasumasa Fukushima succeeded General Baron Yoshimasa Oshima as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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10 May 1912 RELIGIOUS The first Southern Sociological Congress closed, in Nashville. The four-day convocation met to address "social, civic and economic problems" of sixteen Southern states, and was an example of government, social agencies and the Church working together for social betterment.
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13 May 1912 WW2 The Air Battalion of the British Royal Corps of Engineers became the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps. 
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14 May 1912 WW2 King Frederick VIII of Denmark (age 68) collapsed and died whilst on a walk in Hamburg, Germany. 
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01 Jun 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold set an altitude record of 1,990 meters, or 6,540 feet. 
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02 Jun 1912 WW2 In tests completed at College Park, Maryland, United States, Captain Charles Chandler fired a new Lewis machine gun from an aircraft flown by Lieutenant Thomas D. Milling; the results were so encouraging that ten more Lewis guns were requested, but this order could not be met as the US Army Ordnance Department had not then ordered the weapon into production. During World War I the American-designed Lewis became a standard aircraft machine gun. 
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23 Jun 1912 WW2 Alan Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Jun 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold crashed the US Army's first front-mounted propeller-and-engine aircraft on takeoff into the bay at Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. 
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01 Jul 1912 WW2 Settsu was commissioned into service. 
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04 Jul 1912 WW2 Friedrich Paulus married Elena Rosetti-Solescu. 
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05 Jul 1912 WW2 The British Royal Flying Corps' first fatal crash occurred when Captain Eustace B. Loraine and his observer, Staff Sergeant R. H. V. Wilson, flying from Larkhill Aerodrome, were killed in a crash on Salisbury Plain. 
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15 Jul 1912 WW2 The construction of battleship Lorraine was ordered. 
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17 Jul 1912 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of midshipman. 
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01 Aug 1912 WW2 The keel of Lorraine was laid down by Chantiers de Penhoët at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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04 Aug 1912 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was born in Kappsta, Lidingö, Sweden. 
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19 Aug 1912 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the chief of staff to the 16th Division. 
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24 Aug 1912 WW2 Hazel Lee was born in Portland, Oregon, United States. 
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24 Aug 1912 WW2 The United States' District of Alaska was renamed the Territory of Alaska. 
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28 Aug 1912 WW2 Dreadnaught Settsu was reclassified as a battleship. 
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31 Aug 1912 WW2 Masafumi Arima left the Kagoshima Prefectural Middle School in Japan without completing his degree. 
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07 Sep 1912 WW2 Mariana Dragescu was born in Craiova, Romania. 
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09 Sep 1912 WW2 Masafumi Arima rolled in the Japanese Naval Academy in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. 
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21 Sep 1912 WW2 Stanley Hollis was born in Loftus, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Sep 1912 WW2 General Koichiro Tachibara was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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01 Oct 1912 WW2 Howard Whalen was born. 
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04 Oct 1912 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's sixth child, Princess Tomoko, was born. 
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08 Oct 1912 WW2 The Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire in the 1st Balkan War. 
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18 Oct 1912 WW2 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant. 
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02 Nov 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold successfully established radio telegraph connection from his Wright C Speed Scout S. C. No. 10 aircraft with units on the ground about 9.7 kilometers, or 6 miles, away while in flight over Fort Riley, Kansas, United States. 
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05 Nov 1912 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected to New York State Senate in the United States. 
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05 Nov 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold suffered injuries in an air crash, and would be given a leave of absence from the Aviation Section of the US Army Signal Corps. 
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27 Nov 1912 WW2 Prince Kotohito was promoted to the rank of general and was made a member of the Japanese Supreme War Council; he stepped down as the head of Imperial Guard Division. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of ensign. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Vice Admiral Hajime Sakamoto succeeded Vice Admiral Hikohachi Yamada as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Naval District (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. Rear Admiral Sadaichi Hiraoka was named Sakamoto's chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu attended Japanese Navy War College. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Captain Morihide Tanaka was officially named the commanding officer of Settsu; he had been the ship's Chief Equipping Officer since Dec 1911. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Captain Shibakichi Yamanaka was named the commanding officer of Settsu, and Settsu was assigned to Battleship Division 1. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold was transferred to the Aeronautical Division of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the US Army in Washington DC, United States. 
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02 Dec 1912 WW2 German chancellor Theobold von Bethmann Hollweg announced in the Reichstag that, if Austria-Hungary was attacked by a third power while pursuing its interests, Germany would support Austria-Hungary and fight to maintain its own position in Europe. 
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03 Dec 1912 WW2 Britain, fearful that a Russo-Austria war would lead to a German attack on France, warned the Germans that if that happened Britain "would not accept a French defeat". 
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08 Dec 1912 WW2 The Kaiser called a meeting of his military and naval leaders, telling them that if Russia came to the aid of Serbia then Germany must be prepared to fight. He assumed that Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and Turkey would all side with the Triple Alliance leaving Austria-Hungary free to concentrate against the Russians. Tirpitz (Head of the German Naval Office) declared that the Navy was not yet ready for war. Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, who was anxious to maintain détente with the British, was not invited to the meeting thus leaving the political viewpoint out of the discussions. 
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18 Dec 1912 WW2 Benjamin (Jr.) Davis was born. 
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