September 1912 calendar

Events

• 04 Sep 1912 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
• 06 Sep 1912 New York Giants Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0.
• 07 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
• 09 Sep 1912 J Verdrines becomes first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph).
• 11 Sep 1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
• 12 Sep 1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms
• 15 Sep 1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
• 17 Sep 1912 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn and hits 4 singles
• 19 Sep 1912 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
• 22 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9 / 7 / 12)
• 23 Sep 1912 Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film
• 25 Sep 1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
• 27 Sep 1912 W C Handy publishes Memphis Blues 1st Blues Song, 1912
• 28 Sep 1912 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
• 29 Sep 1912 French / British troops lands on Samoa

Famous Birthday

• Michelangelo Antonioni

  Ferrara, Italy -- Director (Blow-up, Red Desert).

• John Cage

  American musician and composer, writer, photographer, reporter, and critic, always avant-garde.

• Robert Aubinière
• André Dassary

  French singer, who is the father of the actress Évelyne Dandry.

• Kristina Söderbaum

  Swedish-German actress and photographer (d. 2001).

• Nicolas Schöffer
• Jean Lescure

  French poet, translator and editor.

• György Sándor

  Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 2005).

• David Packard

  American 6' 5" tall entrepreneur, government official and philanthropist.

• Jacques Fath

  French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture.

• François Ceyrac

  French businessman, corporate director and French trade unionist.

• Ian MacGregor

  Scottish businessman who was appointed the Chairman of the National Coal Board on 3/28/1983.

• William Everson

  American poet, critic and publisher, known as Brother Antoninus.

• Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel

  French nobleman, soldier and diplomat.

• Chuck Jones

  American animator producer and screenwriter (d. 2002).

• Horace Babcock
• Lukas Ammann

  Basel, Germany -- Actor (Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel).

• Elisabeth Schaeck

  German astrologer and publisher who primarily took care of propagating and publishing the work of Walter Koch and the Koch houses.

• Reta Shaw

  Actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of emphysema at 69.

• Martha Scott

  American actress and producer (d. 2003).

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Famous Deaths

• Sam[uel E] van Beem

  Actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62.

• Samuel Coleridge Taylor

  African-British composer, dies at 37.

• Mary Frances Allitsen

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Arthur MacArthur

  Jr.

• Maresuke Nogi

  Japanese general (Born 1849).

• Pierre-Hector Coullie

  Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (Born 1829).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. John McCormack - Silver Threads Among the Gold
2. Victor Herbert & His Orchestra - Naughty Marietta Intermezzo
3. Arthur Pryor's Band - Everybody's Doin' It Two-Step
4. Elsie Baker - I Love You Truly
5. Arthur Collins - When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on His Old Banjo