April 1912 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
• 04 Apr 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia.
• 06 Apr 1912 Electric starter first appeared in cars.
• 08 Apr 1912 Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200.
• 09 Apr 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York.
• 10 Apr 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage
• 11 Apr 1912 Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid.
• 13 Apr 1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF).
• 14 Apr 1912 Pan American Union forms.
• 15 Apr 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
• 16 Apr 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• 17 Apr 1912 Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
• 18 Apr 1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
• 19 Apr 1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of New York in 2:21:18.2.
• 20 Apr 1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11.
• 22 Apr 1912 Pravda, the ''voice'' of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
• 27 Apr 1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in the Netherlands
• 29 Apr 1912 108 degrees F (42 degrees C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record high).

Famous Birthday

• Robert Doisneau

  French photographer whose photos of ordinary people were enormously popular.

• Kim Il-sung

  President of North Korea (d. 1994).

• Glenn Seaborg

  American scientist, a multifaceted nuclear chemist and Nobel prize winner for his discovery of the radioactive element plutonium, the first...

• Hélène Perdrière
• Kathleen Ferrier

  English alto singer, dies at 41.

• Jean Simon (general)
• Edmond Jabès
• Sonja Henie

  Norwegian championship ice skater of all time with awards of over 257 medals, cups and bowls.

• Feike Asma

  Dutch musician, an organist who was popular in Canada, France and U.S.

• Odette Sansom
• Alois Brunner

  German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies.

• Martha Eggerth
• Georges Franju

  French documentary film maker.

• A E Van Vogt
• Harry Hay

  British-American father of the American gay rights movement.

• Jacques de Bourbon Busset
• Marcel Camus

  French film director.

• Richard Carlson

  American actor who was brought to Hollywood by David O. Selznick as a scriptwriter before he went into film acting, playing lead in some 50...

• Wendy Barrie

  British-American actress, a vivacious minor star who was on-screen from 1935 in Hollywood.

• Jozef Gabcík
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Famous Deaths

• Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster

  captain of the RMS Titanic (Born 1850)\Henry Tingle Wilde, Chief Officer (b.

• Ishikawa Takuboku

  Japanese author (Born 1886).

• Bram Stoker Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula)

  dies.

• Frantisek Kmoch composer

  dies.

• Clara Barton

  American founder of the Red Cross.

• Henri Brisson

  French statesman (Born 1835).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Peerless Quartet (Columbia Male Quartet) - Everybody's Doing it Now
2. Lucy Isabelle Marsh - To the Land of My Own Romance (I Have a Dream, By Night, By Day)
3. Walter Van Brunt - The Harbor of Love
4. Prince's Orchestra - Alexander's Ragtime Band
5. Dolly Connolly - Moonlight Bay