February 1912 calendar

Events

• 02 Feb 1912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe).
• 09 Feb 1912 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion.
• 12 Feb 1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• 14 Feb 1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
• 16 Feb 1912 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden.
• 22 Feb 1912 J Vedrines makes first airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph.
• 24 Feb 1912 Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut, when the cruiser ''Giuseppe Garibaldi'' and the gunboat ''Volturno'' bombard the harbour. The attack kills 97 sailors and civilians.
• 26 Feb 1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on March 1).
• 27 Feb 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway.
• 29 Feb 1912 Serbia and Bulgaria secretly sign a treaty of alliance for a term of eight years, with each pledging to come to the defense of the other during war.

Famous Birthday

• Eva Braun

  German news figure, the mistress of Adolf Hitler for 15 years and his wife for one day.

• Pierre Boulle

  French writer (Executioner), dies at 81.

• Lawrence Durrell

  Irish writer born in India, a novelist, playwright and travel writer.

• Émile Allais

  French champion alpine ski racer, who won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938.

• Claretta Petacci

  mistress of Mussolini, is executed.

• Jean Hérold-Paquis

  French journalist who collaborated with the Nazis.

• Jacques Soustelle

  French politician, ethnologist and anthropologist, Governor General of Algeria in 1955-56.

• Ulrich de Maizière
• Meta Neuberger

  American physicist who wrote 50 papers dealing with solid-state materials in her work with the properties of crystals.

• Nikita Magaloff

  Russian / Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert).

• Alain de Sérigny
• Ginette Leclerc

  French film actress who appeared in nearly 90 films between 1932 and 1978.

• Al Tomaini
• Bernard Lajarrige

  French stage, film and television actor.

• Erich Leinsdorf

  Austrian conductor, studied in Vienna and conducted as an assistant to Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini from 1934-1937.

• Alfred Desenclos
• Byron Nelson

  Fort Worth, Texas -- PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945).

• Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur)
• Lycette Darsonval

  French dancer and teacher; debut at Paris Opera Ballet 1930.

• Simone Genevois
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Famous Deaths

• L Oates

  British explorer (Antarctica).

• St Nikolai of Japan

  Eastern Orthodox priest (Born 1836).

• Guillaume IV

  Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Born 1852).

• Joseph Lister first Baron Lister

  surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies.

• Edgar Evans British explorer (Antarctica)

  dies.

• Aloys von Aerenthal foreign minister (Austria-Hungary)

  dies at age 57.

• Franz Reichelt

  Austrian tailor/Inventor (Born 1800's).

• Edgar Evans

  Welsh naval officer (Born 1876).

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