December 1912 calendar

Events

• 03 Dec 1912 Gerrit Brinkman becomes first Dutch traffic officer.
• 06 Dec 1912 China votes for universal human rights.
• 07 Dec 1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt.
• 08 Dec 1912 Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• 16 Dec 1912 Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia.
• 18 Dec 1912 The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
• 19 Dec 1912 William H. 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.
• 21 Dec 1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
• 23 Dec 1912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation.
• 24 Dec 1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards.
• 28 Dec 1912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary Street
• 30 Dec 1912 The First Balkan War ends temporarily: Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League countries) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month-long war.

Famous Birthday

• Carlo Ponti

  Italian film producer and Oscar winner.

• Carlo Ponti

  Italian film producer and Oscar winner.

• Paul Meurisse

  French actor, and fiancé of singer Edith Piaf.

• Lady Bird Johnson

  First Lady of the United States (Born 1912).

• Jean Grosjean
• Robert Berri
• Jacques Dynam
• Philip Hart

  American politician, a liberal Dem.

• Mario Zatelli

  Algerian-born soccer player who played for France.

• Tip O'Neill

  American politician, five-time Speaker of the House, a cheerfully rumpled embodiment of old-fashioned Democratic politics.

• Henri Thomas

  Anglemont Writer.

• Jean Devaivre

  French filmmaker who directed 15 feature films and 40 short films, and wrote 35 original scripts and more than 120 adaptations and dubbings.

• Jacques Dorsan

  Jacques Dorsan was a leading pioneer of sidereal astrology in France.

• Tony Martin

  Oakland, California -- Singer ( Show, Tonight We Love).

• Benjamin O Davis Jr

  American General (d. 2002).

• Yusef Bedri

  educationist.

• Leighton Noble

  Singer / bandleader.

• Rien van

  Nunen Dutch actor (Spuit Elf).

• Philip A Hart

  U.

• Morey Amsterdam

  Chicago, Illinois -- Comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show).

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Famous Deaths

• Prudente Jose de Morais Barros

  President of Brazil (Born 1841).

• George Darwin theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean

  dies.

• Luitpold von Bayern prince-regent of Bayern

  dies at age 91.

• Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter German foreign minister

  dies at age 60.

• Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis

  British Army lieutenant (Born 1887).

• Otto Schoetensack

  German anthropologist and academic (d. 1912).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Ragtime Soldier Man
2. Peerless Quartet - Kentucky Days
3. Walter Van Brunt - That Mellow Melody
4. Trinity Choir - Hark! the Herald Angel Sing
5. Ada Jones & Walter Van Brunt - Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee