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next turn year 1912

events

May[edit]

1912 Summer Olympics Main article: May 1912

May 1 – `Abdu'l-Bahá lays the cornerstone for the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.

May 5 – The Olympic Games open in Stockholm, Sweden.

May 11 – Alaska becomes a territory of the United States.

May 23 – The Hamburg America Line's SS Imperator is launched in Hamburg and is the world's largest ship.

May 30 – Pioneer aviator Wilbur Wright (of the Wright brothers) dies of typhoid fever in Dayton, Ohio. June[edit] Main article: June 1912

June 6 – The Novarupta volcano (290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage) experiences a VEI 6 eruption (the largest in the 20th century).

July[edit] Main article: July 1912

July 1 – Harriet Quimby, who set the record as the first woman to fly the English Channel only 2 months before, dies in Squantum, Massachusetts after her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane crashes, killing both Quimby and her passenger.

July 12 – The United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's film Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth is influential in the development of the movie feature. Adolph Zukor, who incorporates Paramount Pictures on May 8, 1914, launches his company as the distributor. Paramount celebrates its centennial in 2012.

July 30 – Emperor Meiji of Japan dies; he is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who becomes Emperor Taishō. In the history of Japan, the event marks the end of the Meiji period, and the beginning of the Taishō period.

August[edit] Main article: August 1912

August 4 – United States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS Annapolis in Nicaragua, to support the conservative government at its request.[4]

August 12 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.

August 21 – The first Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) earns his rank.

August 25 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

September[edit]

Main article: September 1912

September 28 – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues" in the United States.

other things

-the ottomans are repelled by the Thermopylae line

-revolts occur in Albania and Montenegro

-Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the second bombing with an airplane in history, at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne, against Turkey.

-Serbia refuses the ottoman offer to surrender