Month January 1912 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1912

• Day of Week 1st » The Republic of China (1912–1949) called Republic of China is established.
• Day of Week 4th » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth by Royal charter.
• Day of Week 5th » The Prague Party Conference takes place.
• Day of Week 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.
• Day of Week 8th » The African National Congress is founded.
• Day of Week 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.
• Day of Week 17th » Captain Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition or reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• Day of Week 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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