March 1912 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1912 Isabella Goodwin, first US woman detective, appointed, New York City, New York.
• 05 Mar 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die.
• 12 Mar 1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th Steet New York City.
• 13 Mar 1912 Stanley Cup: QuTbec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (New Brunswick) in two games.
• 14 Mar 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt.
• 15 Mar 1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.
• 16 Mar 1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington DC.
• 17 Mar 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick.
• 23 Mar 1912 Dixie Cup invented.
• 27 Mar 1912 Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
• 29 Mar 1912 Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far".
• 30 Mar 1912 Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.

Famous Birthday

• Wernher von Braun

  Rocket Scientist (V1 / V2), dies at 65 of smoking.

• Karl Malden

  American actor, commercial pitchman, writer, and president of the Motion Picture Academy.

• Léon Gontran Damas
• Adolf Galland

  German General, considered the best pilot of the Luftwaffe.

• Pat Nixon

  American First Lady, wife of the 36th U.S.

• François Bloch-Lainé

  French banker, directed finances of the French resistance in WWII.

• Agnes Martin

  Canadian-American painter and educator (d. 2004).

• Jean Vilar

  French actor and stage director, his films were few, but striking.

• Jeff York

  American actor, reliable for a consistent performance in character roles.

• Martha Mödl
• Jacques Despierre

  France Painter.

• James Callaghan

  British politician, financial spokesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

• James Callaghan

  British politician, financial spokesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

• Fred Zeller

  French painter and political activist.

• Afro Basaldella

  Italian painter (d. 1976).

• John G Adams
• Jack Marshall

  New Zealand politician, National Party Prime Minister from 2/07/1972 to 12/08/1972.

• Louis Paul Boon

  Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67.

• Constance Chapman
• Siegfried Borries

  German concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic at age 20.

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Famous Deaths

• Robert F Scott British pole explorer (Antarctica)

  dies.

• Henry Robertson Bowers

  member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (Born 1883).

• Edward Adrian Wilson English physician and naturalist

  member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (Born 1872).

• Sir Robert Falcon Scott English explorer

  member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (Born 1868).

• Karl May

  German writer who was very popular within the fiction genre.

• George Grossmith

  English actor and comic writer (Born 1847).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Lucy Isabelle Marsh - Melody of Love
2. Christie MacDonald & Lyric Quartet - Day Dreams, Visions of Bliss
3. Walter Van Brunt - One O'Clock in the Morning
4. Billy Murray - Who Are You with To-Night?
5. Alma Gluck - Home, Sweet Home