What Happened In January 1912 In History

Historical Events for January, 1912

• 1st » The Republic of China (1912–1949) called Republic of China is established.
• 4th » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth by Royal charter.
• 5th » The Prague Party Conference takes place.
• 6th » New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 6th » Germany called German Geophysics known as geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• 8th » The African National Congress is founded.
• 11th » Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike e.g go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• 17th » Captain Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition or reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• 23rd » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1912

• 1st » Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Soviet Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
• 1st » Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
• 1st » Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (d. 1991)
• 3rd » Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (d. 1936)
• 3rd » Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2002)
• 3rd » Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
• 6th » Danny Thomas, American actor and producer (d. 1991)
• 7th » Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
• 7th » Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002)
• 8th » José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
• 8th » Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2014)
• 9th » Ralph Tubbs, English architect, designed the Dome of Discovery (d. 1996)
• 10th » Maria Mandel, Austrian SS guard (d. 1948)
• 11th » Don "Red" Barry, American actor (d. 1980)
• 12th » Richard Kuremaa, Estonian footballer (d. 1991)
• 14th » Tillie Olsen, American author (d. 2007)
• 15th » Michel Debré, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1996)
• 19th » Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize in Economics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 20th » Walter Briggs, Jr., American businessman (d. 1970)
• 21st » Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 23rd » Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director (d. 2009)
• 24th » Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (d. 2005)
• 27th » Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
• 27th » Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented the Rogallo wing (d. 2009)
• 28th » Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
• 30th » Werner Hartmann (physicist) named Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
• 30th » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)
• 30th » Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (d. 1989)

Famous Deaths for January 1912

• 4th » Clarence Dutton, American geologist (b. 1841)
• 25th » Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal (b. 1816)
• 28th » Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)

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