next turn year 1912
events
September 28 – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues" in the United States.
October[edit] Main article: October 1912 October 10 – The Maternity Allowance Act goes into effect in Australia, but excludes minorities.
October 14 – John Flammang Schrank attempts to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt.
October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel.[5]
October Edgar Rice Burroughs' character Tarzan first appears in Tarzan of the Apes, in American pulp magazine The All-Story. Sax Rohmer's character Fu Manchu first appears in the first story of The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu in English pulp magazine The Story-Teller. November[edit]
Main article: November 1912
November 8, 1912: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson wins U.S. presidential election.
November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1912: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson wins over former president Theodore Roosevelt, and incumbent president William Howard Taft.
November 11 – William Lawrence Bragg presents his derivation of Bragg's law for the angles for coherent and incoherent scattering from a crystal lattice, creating the field of x-ray crystallography, and making possible the eventual imaging of the double helix of DNA[6]
November 28 – Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire. December[edit] Main article: December 1912
December 18 – Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, is presented to the Geological Society of London (it is revealed to be a hoax in 1953).
December 24 – Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch.[7]