May 1912 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens.
• 04 May 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes.
• 05 May 1912 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
• 07 May 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer.
• 08 May 1912 Paramount Pictures is founded.
• 09 May 1912 American Numismatic Association receives federal charter.
• 11 May 1912 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4.
• 13 May 1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England.
• 15 May 1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game and is suspended.
• 18 May 1912 Maurits Binger establishes two Dutch movie companies.
• 23 May 1912 The Hamburg America Line's is launched in Hamburg and is the world's largest ship.
• 30 May 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua.
• 31 May 1912 US marines land on Cuba.

Famous Birthday

• Perry Como

  American singer (d. 2001).

• Jean-Denis Malclès

  French painter, poster artist and designer.

• Joseph Anthony (director)
• Roger Ikor

  French writer and educator whose last teaching post was in 1973 at the Sorbonne.

• André De Toth
• Pedro Armendariz

  Mexico -- Actor (From Russia With Love).

• Iris Adrian
• Sam Snead

  American professional golfer and winner of the PGA Championship, the Masters, the Vardon Trophy, the Tournament of Champions and the British...

• Jean Francaix

  French composer (d. 1997).

• Joan Hammond

  New Zealand opera singer, a mezzo-soprano noted particularly for her Puccini roles.

• Julius Axelrod

  American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1912).

• John Crosby

  American writer, a novelist and former syndicated radio and TV columnist.

• Fernand Pouillon

  French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer.

• May Sarton

  Belgian-American author with seven decades of written material produced.

• Patrick White

  Australian noted family member born and educated in London.

• Dmitri Baltermants
• Marcel Thielemans

  Belgian musician and jazz singer.

• Walter Sisulu

  South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003).

• Jacques Falcou

  Neuilly sur Seine Painters.

• Theo Bayle

  Dutch opera singer, a baritone who made his stage debut as a concert singer in the early 1930s.

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Famous Deaths

• Frederik VIII C W K

  King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68.

• King Frederick

  VIII of Denmark (Born 1843).

• Boles?aw Prus

  Polish writer (Born 1847).

• Austin Lane Crothers

  American politician (Born 1860).

• Jan Blockx Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea)

  dies at age 61.

• August Strindberg

  Swedish famed writer of great stories; a historian, novelist and noted most as a playwright.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Fred Van Eps - Red Pepper - A Spicy Rag
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - I'm Going Back to Dixie
3. Henry Burr - Come to the Ball
4. Dolly Connolly - Ragtime Mocking Bird
5. Harry Macdonough & American Quartet - When I was Twenty-one and You Were Sweet Sixteen