Early Morning, 1912 .............................
one hundred ten years ago:
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January 6 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S.
February 14 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state
March 6 – Oreo cookies introduced.
April 10 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage for New York City.
April 18 – The RMS Carpathia arrives in New York City with Titanic's 706 survivors.
April 20 – Baseball parks opened:
- Tiger Stadium (Detroit) as Navin Field.
- Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
May 11 – Alaska is constituted as a territory of the U.S.
May 18 – The Detroit Tigers go on strike to protest the suspension of Ty Cobb
June 9 – The Villisca axe murders take place in Villisca, Iowa
July 19 – A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
November 5 – U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger and Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
Births of 1912:
May 18 – Perry Como, singer
May 27
- John Cheever, fiction writer
- Sam Snead, golfer
July 17 – Art Linkletter, television host
August 13 – Ben Hogan, golfer
October 25 – Minnie Pearl, humorist