Some Events of 1912
 

▪ January 1 –The Republic of China is established following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty.
▪ January 6 –New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
▪ January 17 –British explorer Capt. Robert Scott reaches the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Admundsen had beat him to it the previous month.
▪ January 23 –The International Opium Convention, the first international drug control treaty, is signed at The Hague.
▪ February 14 –Arizona becomes the 48th state.
▪ March 1 –Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from an airplane.
▪ March 6 –The Oreo cookie is introduced. 491 billion have since been consumed.
▪ March 7 –French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London, in three hours.
▪ March 12 –Juliette Gordon Lowe founds the Girl Scouts.
▪ March 27 –The Mayor of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to the U.S. to be planted in Washington, D.C.
▪ March 29 –Capt. Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near the South Pole, makes the last entry in his diary: "The end cannot be far."
▪ April 14 –RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg 370 miles southeast of Newfoundland. She sinks the following day with the loss of 1500 lives.
▪ April 22 –Fred Hafner is born in Buffalo, New York.
▪ May 5 –The Olympic Games open in Stockholm, Sweden. (Jim Thorpe wins the penthalon and decathalon.)
▪ July 30 –Emperor Meiji of Japan dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes Emperor Taishō.
▪ August 4 –U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to support the conservative government.
▪ September 3 –The world's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy.
▪ October 16 –Two Bulgarian pilots perform the first bombing with an airplane in history, at a railway station near Edirne in Turkey.
▪ November 5 –Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
▪ December 18 –The discovery of Piltdown Man is presented to the Geological Society of London. It is revealed to be a hoax in 1953.

Date unknown:
▪ Casimir Funk identifies vitamins.
▪ The Scoville Unit (used to measure the heat of peppers) is devised by Wilbur Scoville.
▪ Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift.
 

 Famous People Born in 1912
(The year of the golfer)
 

Charles Addams - cartoonist
C. Elmer Anderson - Governor of Minnesota 1951-55
Pappy Boyington - World War II flying ace
Eva Braun - Hitler's mistress
Les Brown - band leader ("Les Brown and his Band of Renown")
Julia Child - chef
Perry Como - singer
Doris Duke - tobacco heiress
Dale Evans - Roy Rogers's wife
Milton Friedman - economist
Woody Guthrie - folk singer
Fred Hafner - food chemist, golfer, singer, centenarian
June Havoc - actress
Sonja Henie - figure skater
Ben Hogan - golfer
Lightnin' Hopkins - singer, songwriter, guitarist
Lady Bird Johnson - First Lady
Gene Kelly - dancer, singer, actor
Art Linkletter - radio & TV personality
Karl Malden - actor
Byron Nelson - golfer
Pat Nixon - First Lady
Tip O'Neill - Speaker of the House 1977-87
David Packard - co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
Minnie Pearl - singer
Kim Philby - spy and traitor
Bebe Rebozo - Nixon crony
Eric Sevareid - CBS newsman & commentator
Jay Silverheels - Tonto on "The Lone Ranger"
Sam Snead - golfer
Kim Il Sung - North Korean dictator 1972-94
Studs Terkel - radio personality, writer
Wernher von Braun - rocket scientist
Murray Warmath - Univ. of Minnesota football coach 1954-71

Famous People Born on April 22nd
 

▪ 1451 – Isabella I of Castile (sent Columbus off to discover the new world) (d. 1504)
▪ 1707 – Henry Fielding, English novelist (Tom Jones) (d. 1754)
▪ 1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
▪ 1870 – Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
▪ 1891 – Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927) (Sacco & Vanzetti)
▪ 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (Lolita) (d. 1977)
▪ 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, leader of the Manhattan project (creation of the atom bomb) (d. 1967)
▪ 1906 – Eddie Albert, actor (d. 2005)
▪ 1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953) (born the very same day as Fred)
▪ 1912 – Fred Hafner, YouTube karaoke singer
▪ 1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (d. 1999)
▪ 1922 – Richard Diebenkorn, artist (d. 1993)
▪ 1922 – Charles Mingus, jazz musician (d. 1979)
▪ 1923 – Aaron Spelling, television producer (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Starsky and Hutch) (d. 2006)
▪ 1936 – Glen Campbell, singer
▪ 1937 – Jack Nicholson, actor
▪ 1939 – Mel Carter, singer (Hold me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me)
▪ 1950 – Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings
▪ 1952 – Marilyn Chambers, adult film actress (Behind the Green Door) (d. 2009)
▪ 1959 – Terry Francona, baseball manager (Phillies and Red Sox)