January 1912 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1912 The Republic of China is established.
• 04 Jan 1912 The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
• 05 Jan 1912 The Prague Party Conference takes place.
• 06 Jan 1912 New Mexico is the 47th state admitted to the USA.
• 09 Jan 1912 US marines invade Honduras.
• 10 Jan 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns.
• 12 Jan 1912 -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Washta Iowa (state record).
• 13 Jan 1912 -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Oakland Maryland (state record).
• 17 Jan 1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
• 18 Jan 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
• 23 Jan 1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• 29 Jan 1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence Massachusetts.

Famous Birthday

• Jackson Pollock

  American artist, a painter and exponent of abstract expressionism and, in particular, the form known as "action painting.

• Michel Debré

  French politician, a minister and author.

• José Ferrer

  Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992).

• Kim Philby

  British double agent, a master spy and traitor, the mysterious "third man" whose unmasking as Soviet agent in 1963 rocked the empire.

• Charles Addams

  American cartoonist, the creator of gentle, ghoulish drawings that are chilling but charming, wicked without being mean-spirited.

• Maria Mandel

  Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948).

• Günter Wand

  German conductor and composer (d. 2002).

• Jacques Ellul

  French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist.

• Henri Vincenot

  French writer, painter, and sculptor.

• David Rousset

  French writer, deputy and officer of the Legion of Honour.

• Aldo Spoldi

  Italian-American boxer who spent most of his career in the U.S.

• Armand Robin

  France Writer.

• Susumu Fujita
• Roberto Murolo
• Roger Lewis (businessman)
• Jacques Cesar

  Ellul writer.

• Renato Guttuso Italian painter (The Flight from Etna

  Crucifixion).

• Donald Barry

  Houston, Texas -- Actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak).

• Leonid V Kantorovich

  St. Petersburg, Russia -- Economist (Nobel).

• Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans

  Dutch Social Democratic Party Chairman (1965-69).

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Famous Deaths

• Dmitry Milyutin

  Russian field marshal (Born 1816).

• Otto Liebmann German philosopher (Kant and Epigones)

  dies at age 71.

• Georg Heym writer

  dies at age 24.

• Hermann Bang writer

  dies at age 54.

• Felix Dahn

  German jurist, historian, poet, and novelist who made his greatest contribution as a scholar of German antiquity.

• Gustave de Molinari

  Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (d. 1912).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sophie Tucker - Knock Wood
2. Lyric Quartet - There's a Girl in Havana
3. Walter Van Brunt & John Bieling - Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still
4. Victor Military Band - Alexander's Ragtime Band
5. Arthur Collins & Albert Campbell - That Mysterious Rag