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March 1912

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The following events occurred in March 1912:

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March 1, 1912 (Friday)

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March 2, 1912 (Saturday)

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March 3, 1912 (Sunday)

  • Mexican General Pascual Orozco, who had helped Francisco I. Madero win the revolution of 1911 and become President of Mexico, declared a revolt against the Madero government after having been denied a major role. Orozco and his followers, the "Orozquistas," then assisted Victoriano Huerta in overthrowing Madero.Don M. Coerver, et al., Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History (ABC-CLIO, 2004) p. 361.
  • An Italian force of 15,000 troops led by Luigi Capello defeated a combined Ottoman-Senussi force under the command of Enver Pasha near Derna, Libya, with around 200 casualties for both sides.George W. Gawrych, The Young Atatürk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey, p. 25.
  • Pilot Wilfred Parke made the first successful flight of the Avro 500, the forerunner to the Avro 504 that would be used by the Royal Flying Corps in World War I.Jackson, A.J. Avro Aircraft since 1908. London:Putnam, 1990. {{ISBN|0-85177-834-8}}, p. 32. Parke would be killed in a plane crash on December 15, 1912, at Wembley, England.{{cite journal |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%200038.html |title=Report on the fatal accident to Lieut. Wilfred Parke, R.N. |journal=Flight |date=11 January 1913 |page=38-9}}
  • Frieda Weekley met her future husband author D. H. Lawrence in Nottingham.{{Cite ODNB|author-link=John Worthen (literary critic) |first=John |last=Worthen |title=Lawrence, David Herbert (1885–1930) |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34435 |access-date=2013-02-25 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34435}}

March 4, 1912 (Monday)

March 5, 1912 (Tuesday)

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  • King Vajiravudh of Siam (now Thailand) ordered mass arrests of officers of the Siamese Army, who had been conspiring to overthrow his government. Most had been graduates of the 1909 class of the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy.David K. Wyatt, Thailand: A Short History (Yale University Press, 2003) pp. 212-213.The Britannica Year-Book 1913: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopædia Britannica (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913) pp. xxiii-xxv.
  • Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, Libya from an altitude of 6,000 feet."Dirigibles in Tripoli War". New York Times. March 8, 1912.
  • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a check in the amount of 2.5 million dollars (equivalent to $50,000,000 today) from Eastman Kodak founder George Eastman, fueling the growth of MIT to national prominence.Mark Jarzombek, Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech (UPNE, Oct 28, 2004) p. 38.
  • The musical The Whirl of Society by Louis Hirsch opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City and ran for 136 performances.{{cite web |url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=7454#9301 |title=A Night with the Pierrots / Sesostra / The Whirl of Society |author= |date=2001–2015 |website= Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=January 1, 2015}}
  • The drama Milestones by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock opened at the Royalty Theatre in London and ran for 612 performances.{{cite book|editor-last= Gaye|editor-first=Freda |year= 1967|title=Who's Who in the Theatre |edition=fourteenth|location=London |publisher=Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons |oclc=5997224|page=1535}}
  • Born:
  • David Astor, British newspaper publisher, long-time editor and publisher of The Observer, member of the Astor family; in London (d. 2001).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Velma Bronn Johnston, American activist, best known as "Wild Horse Annie" for her successful campaigns to save and protect American wild horses; in Reno, Nevada (d. 1977).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Jack Marshall, New Zealand state leader, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand; in Wellington (d. 1988).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 6, 1912 (Wednesday)

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  • China's Provisional National Assembly voted to accept the resignation of President Sun Yat-sen and to elect Yuan Shikai to succeed him.James Zheng Gao, Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) (Scarecrow Press, 2009) p. 285.
  • Nicaragua's President Adolfo Díaz ordered the arrest of nearly one hundred newspaper editors and reporters for implying the threat of harm to visiting United States Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, who was touring Central America."100 Are Put in Jail for Assailing Knox". New York Times. March 7, 1912.
  • Ecuadoran General Julio Andrade, seven weeks after suppressing the Ecuadorian rebellion, was killed by his own troops."Record of Current Events", The American Monthly Review of Reviews (April 1912), pp. 414-417.
  • A general strike involving thousands of tramway workers in Brisbane officially ended but many of the striking workers were fired from their jobs.{{cite news|last=Moore|first=Tony|title=Brisbane's great strike remembered|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbanes-great-strike-remembered-20120118-1q64v.html|access-date=23 January 2012|newspaper=Brisbane Times|date=18 January 2012}}
  • Following a successful acquittal for the murder of former XIT Ranch manager Albert Boyce, Jr. in Fort Worth, Texas, cattle baron John Beal Sneed's father was shot and killed by tenant farmer R. O. Hilliard in Georgetown, Texas. Hilliard committed suicide after, leaving a note that said the killing was in retaliation of Sneed shooting Boyce in January.{{Cite web | title=BOYCE-SNEED FEUD - The Handbook of Texas Online| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcb02| date=| year=| access-date=August 1, 2012}}{{cite book | last=Untiedt| first=Kenneth L.| title=Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter| publisher=University of North Texas Press| year=2008| isbn=978-1-57441-256-7}}
  • The National Biscuit Company (now Nabisco) introduced the Oreo cookie.Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes from Around the World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999) p. 283.{{cite web |last1=Olver |first1=Lynne |title=The Food Timeline: History notes -- cookies, crackers & biscuits |url=http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html/ |website=foodtimeline.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717061521/http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html/#oreos |archive-date=17 July 2012 |date=17 July 2012}} John F. Mariani, Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink (Lebhar-Friedman Books, 1999) p. 225. The Hydrox cookie, which also consisted of two chocolate cookies with a creme filling in-between, had been introduced by Sunshine Biscuits in 1908, but was less popular, and the brand name was changed in 1999 to "Keebler Droxies."[https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/03/15/256478/index.htm "Oreos to Hydrox: Resistance Is Futile"], by Paul Lukas, Fortune Magazine (March 15, 1999)
  • Born: George Webb, British actor who portrayed "Daddy" on the British television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances; in Paddington, England (d. 1998).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Died: Manuel Sánchez Mármol, 72, Mexican novelist, member of the literary realism movement in Mexico (b. 1839).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 7, 1912 (Thursday)

  • The United States Senate voted 76–3 to ratify the American arbitration treaties with the United Kingdom and France, with amendments that removed most controversies from being arbitrated.John Whiteclay Chambers II, The Eagle and the Dove: The American Peace Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1900-1922 (Syracuse University Press, 1991) p. 21. "World Peace Code Ratified by Senate". Milwaukee Sentinel. March 8, 1912, p. 1.
  • Bulgaria and Serbia signed a mutual defense agreement, providing that if one nation was attacked by Austria-Hungary or the Ottoman Empire, the other would go to war as well.Richard C. Hall, The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War (Taylor & Francis, 2000) p. 11.
  • Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Prime Minister of Hungary within Austria-Hungary, resigned along with his cabinet after a dispute with the Austrian government."Hungarian Cabinet Out". New York Times. March 8, 1912.
  • The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition came to an end as Roald Amundsen and the ship Fram sailed into Hobart at the Australian state of Tasmania, after having departed Antarctica on January 30. Upon his arrival, he brought the news that he and his party of five had become the first persons to reach the South Pole, planting the flag there on December 14, 1911."All Norway Rejoicing". New York Times. March 9, 1912. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/03/11/100523669.pdf "AMUNDSEN DESCRIBES HIS POLAR DASH; FOUND THE POLE'S ALTITUDE 10,500 FEET; FORCED TO KILL AND EAT HIS DOGS"]. New York Times. March 11, 1912.Max Jones, The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice (Oxford University Press, 2003) p. 87.
  • Standard Oil of Indiana (now Amoco) increased its capital stock from one million to a record $30,000,000 following a vote by its shareholders."New Oil Capital $30,000,000". New York Times. March 8, 1912.

March 8, 1912 (Friday)

March 9, 1912 (Saturday)

  • The Lawrence textile strike ended after the owners of the various clothing mills increased employee wages by at least 5 percent."Lawrence Wages Raised". New York Times. March 10, 1912.
  • The University of Wisconsin basketball team, which would later be retroactively proclaimed the national champions for the 1911–1912 season by the Helms Athletic Foundation, saved its claim to an unbeaten record after winning 29–26 in overtime in an away game at the University of Minnesota. On March 15, the Badgers would defeat Indiana University, 32–21, to finish the season unbeaten (15-0).[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.BBall2005.p0143&id=UW.BBall2005&isize=M Wisconsin Badgers Media Guide 2005-06] p. 141. "Badger Five Beats Gophers". Milwaukee Journal. March 10, 1912, p. 15. 2001 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac

March 10, 1912 (Sunday)

  • Yuan Shikai was sworn in as the provisional President of the Republic of China."Yuan Inaugurated; New Revolt Starts". New York Times. March 11, 1912. Described by one historian{{Who|date=July 2024}} as "a traitor to the republic just as he had betrayed the Qing" Empire,Louise P. Edwards, Gender, Politics, and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China (Stanford University Press, 2008) p. 67. Yuan would move the capital of the republic from Nanjing back to Beijing, then re-establish the monarchy in 1915 with himself as the new Emperor. Yuan would die in 1916.Zhengyuan Fu, Autocratic tradition and Chinese politics (Cambridge University Press, 1993) p. 154.
  • Born: George C. McGhee, American diplomat, 13th Counselor of the United States Department of State; in Waco, Texas (d. 2005).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 11, 1912 (Monday)

  • The provisional constitution of the Republic of China, with 56 articles, was promulgated, giving most executive power to a prime minister and cabinet. It would be replaced in 1914 with a new constitution, giving more power to President Yuan.{{cite book |first=Ke-wen |last=Wang |title=Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=1998 |page=269}}
  • The Miners' Federation of Great Britain offered to meet with Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
  • Coal miners in the German mining regions of Westphalia went on strike, with 200,000 walking off the job at Essen, Hamborn, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bochum and Recklinghausen. The miners returned to work on March 16.{{cite news |title=15,000 German Miners Back |journal=The New York Times |date=March 17, 1912}}
  • Royal Navy submarine A-3 was raised from Portsmouth harbour, along with the remains of the 14 men who had gone down with it when it sank on February 2.{{cite news |title=British Submarine is Raised |journal=The New York Times |date=March 12, 1912}}
  • The University of Hong Kong (UHK) held its first classes, starting with 70 students and a medical school. UHK's enrollment would be more than 22,000 students within 100 years.{{cite book |first=John Mark |last=Carroll |title=A Concise History of Hong Kong |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2007 |page=85}}{{cite web |url=http://hku.hk/about/u_glance.html |publisher=University of Hong Kong |title=About HKU: The Early Years |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215234908/http://www.hku.hk/about/u_glance.html |archive-date=2012-02-15 |website=HKU website}}
  • Born: Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer, leading promoter of Catalonian music; in Girona, Spain (d. 2002).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Died: Lee Shelton, 57, American criminal, known figure in the St. Louis underworld; his killing of Billy Lyons was popularized in the song "Stagger Lee" (b. 1865).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 12, 1912 (Tuesday)

March 13, 1912 (Wednesday)

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  • Mahlon Pitney was confirmed by the United States Senate, 50–26, to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, and took office five days later."Confirm Justice Pitney". New York Times. March 14, 1912.
  • Abdelaziz Thâalbi, a leader of the Young Tunisians, was prosecuted for supporting a boycott against Italian-owned trams in Tunis. He was expelled from Tunisia along with three other colleagues. Two others were exiled to Tataouine in the south part of the country and another was imprisoned. The boycott continued until the head of the month.{{When|reason=The use of "head of the month" needs clarification. |date=July 2024}}[https://archive.org/stream/HistoireDeLaTunisie/Histoire%20de%20la%20Tunisie_djvu.txt Histoire de la Tunisie] accessed 29/12/2016
  • Bandits Ben Kilpatrick and Ole Hobek were killed while attempting to rob a Southern Pacific train car in Sanderson, Texas. Express messenger David Trousdale used a mallet to kill Hobek when he left Kilpatrick at train's engine to check on the rear cars, then obtained guns to shoot Kilpatrick dead when he ventured back to look for his partner. Trousdale was considered a hero by many in Texas and received cash rewards from Wells Fargo, Southern Pacific Railroad and the federal government, as well as a gold watch from the passengers on the train who were held hostage during the robbery.{{cite web | title=Ben Kilpatrick and the last full sized train robbery in Texas, Sanderson, 1912.|work=Arthur Soule|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/FEATURES/Arthur_Soule/Ben_Kilpatrick_Texas_train_robberies.htm| date=| year=| access-date=August 27, 2012}}
  • The Quebec Bulldogs, champions of the National Hockey Association, won the Stanley Cup by taking the second game, 8–0, in a best-of-three series against the Moncton Victorias of the Maritime Professional Hockey League.Brian Flood and Richard Papenhausen, Saint John, a Sporting Tradition, 1785-1985 (Neptune Publishing, 1985) p. 92

March 14, 1912 (Thursday)

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March 15, 1912 (Friday)

March 16, 1912 (Saturday)

  • The P&O ocean liner Oceana, bound from London to Bombay, sank after colliding with the German barge Pisagua at Beachy Head, England. All of the 241 passengers and crew were evacuated from the ship, but nine people died when their lifeboat, first to be launched, was swamped and capsized, and another lifeboat took on so much water that it was on the verge of turning over before its occupants were saved. One author{{Who|date=July 2024}} would note later that the event "surely contributed to the initial reluctance of Titanic passengers to board their lifeboats" the following month.Richard Davenport-Hines, Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew (HarperCollins UK, 2012)"Ten Lives Are Lost by Sinking of Liner". New York Times. March 17, 1912.
  • After the removal of the sailors' bodies who died in its 1898 explosion, the USS Maine was towed to sea by the USS Osceola into international waters, three miles from Havana Harbor, and sunk again to a depth of 620 fathoms (roughly 3,700 feet or 1,100 meters)."The Maine Sinks to Ocean Grave". New York Times. March 17, 1912.
  • The United States Senate passed a bill giving "local citizenship" to residents of the Philippines who had been subjects of Spain in 1899. U.S. President William Howard Taft signed the bill into law on March 23, 1912.
  • Born: Pat Nixon, American social leader, First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974, as Thelma Catherine Ryan; in Ely, Nevada (d. 1993).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 17, 1912 (Sunday)

March 18, 1912 (Monday)

  • In San Antonio, 26 people were killed, and another 32 injured, by the explosion of a boiler on a locomotive owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Most were repairmen working for the railroad, but some were local residents.Sam Mannan, ed., Lee's Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard Identification, Assessment, and Control, Volume 1 (Elsevier, 2005) pp. 1-8.
  • U.S. Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa introduced a bill for a nationwide primary election to select presidential and vice-presidential party nominees, as well as electors, to be held on the second Monday of July prior to every presidential election, beginning with July 8, 1912, and prohibiting American political parties from holding nomination conventions."Would Stop Conventions". New York Times. March 19, 1912.
  • Born:
  • Art Gilmore, American radio and television announcer, known for his television voice work including the 1950s television police show Highway Patrol; in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2010).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Lucien Laurin, Canadian racehorse trainer, trained celebrated racehorses Secretariat and Riva Ridge; in Joliette, Quebec (d. 2000).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Sabicas, Spanish musician, best known for flamenco guitar recordings, as Agustín Castellón Campos; in Pamplona, Spain (d. 1990).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Wilhelm Schäfer, German writer, member of the naturalism movement; in Ottrau, Germany (d. 1952).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 19, 1912 (Tuesday)

March 20, 1912 (Wednesday)

  • The sinking of Australian steamer SS Koombana in a cyclone killed all 150 people on board. The Adelaide Lines ship had departed Port Hedland, Western Australia, earlier in the day on a voyage to Broome. SS Koombana was accompanied by another liner, SS Bullara, when the cyclone struck them both. While the Bullara was able to reach port, Koombana was never seen again.{{cite news |title=Koombana Inquiry. Finding of the Court of Marine. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23872152 |newspaper=The West Australian |date=11 May 1912 |access-date=11 March 2012}}{{cite news |title=The Koombana Sinking |last1=Walkerden |first1=W J |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47140534 |newspaper=The West Australian |date=6 November 1948 |access-date=25 March 2012}}
  • Shortly after 9:00 am, an explosion at the Mine #2 of the Sans Bois Coal Company in McCurtain, Oklahoma, killed 52 men."Explosion in Mine Kills 40, Entombs 78". New York Times. March 21, 1912.
  • The spring exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants opened in Paris, featuring works by Cubist artists Albert Gleizes (The Bathers) and Jean Metzinger (Women With Horse).[http://histoiremesure.revues.org/index2333.html Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Histoire & Mesure, no. XXII -1 (2007), Guerre et statistiques, L'art de la mesure, Le Salon d'Automne (1903-1914), l'avant-garde, ses étranger et la nation française] (The Art of Measure: The Salon d'Automne Exhibition (1903-1914), the Avant-Garde, its Foreigners and the French Nation), electronic distribution Caim for Éditions de l'EHESS (in French)

March 21, 1912 (Thursday)

  • Revolutionaries seized control of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción after two days of fighting. General Emiliano González Navero, who had been president from 1908 to 1910, took control the next day as the President of the provisional government after President Pedro Peña took refuge at the Uruguayan embassy."600 Killed in Battle", New York Times, March 24, 1912
  • Born: Ghazi of Iraq, Iraqi state leader, second King of Iraq, son of King Faisal; in Mecca (d. 1939, killed in an auto accident).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Died: David J. Foster, 54, U.S. Representative from Vermont in his sixth term (b. 1857).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 22, 1912 (Friday)

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  • A cyclone struck Balla Balla and Port Hedland in Western Australia. Over 150 people were killed in the storm, including the loss of all passengers and crew of the coastal steamer Koombana which was presumed sunk after search crews came across floating debris that was part of the ship on April 2. The wreck has never been found.{{cite web |title=The wreck of the "Koombana", March 1912 |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/cyclone1.html |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20090330051442/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/96122/20090317-1643/www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/cyclone1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-03-30 |website=Climate Education |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=10 December 2020}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • Thomas Mackenzie was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand by members of the Liberal-Labour Party, which controlled the Parliament, winning 72–9. The incumbent Premier, Sir Joseph Ward, deferred his resignation until Mackenzie could select a Cabinet."MacKenzie Is New Zealand's Premier". New York Times. March 23, 1912.
  • The French Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence approving the nation's policies in Morocco.
  • Women suffragettes in China occupied the National Assembly building in Nanjing.
  • The largest province in British India, the Bengal Province, was broken up as the new province of Bihar and Orissa, now part of India, was separated from the region.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-QaOP5nK-MC&q=patna%2520capital%2520bihar%2520orissa%2520province&pg=PA44 |title=Bihar And Orissa District Gazetteers Patna |last=O`malley |first=L. S. S. |date=1924 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=9788172681210 |language=en}}
  • Guy Bowman, publisher of the London newspaper Syndicalist, was sentenced to {{frac|9|1|2}} years of hard labor on charges of inciting a mutiny.
  • Yamaoka Engineer Works was established in Osaka, predecessor to the engine manufacturer Yanmar.{{cite web |title=History - About Yanmar |url=https://www.yanmar.com/global/about/history/ |website=Yanmar |access-date=18 December 2020}}
  • Born:
  • Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor, known for his lead role in the BBC television series Steptoe and Son and The Beatles film A Hard Day's Night; in Dublin (d. 1985).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Karl Malden, American actor, known for his lead role in the television crime series The Streets of San Francisco and film roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Patton, recipient for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for On the Waterfront, as Mladen Sekulovich; in Chicago (d. 2009).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Agnes Martin, Canadian-American artist, member of the abstract expressionism movement in the United States; in Macklin, Saskatchewan (d. 2004).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Alfred Schwarzmann, German athlete, three-time gold medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics (d. 2000).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Died: Henry H. Bingham, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1912, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Wilderness during the American Civil War, had Bingham County, Idaho named in his honor (b. 1841).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 23, 1912 (Saturday)

March 24, 1912 (Sunday)

  • An army of 6,000 rebel troops under command of Pascual Orozco defeated around 7,000 federal soldiers at Rellano, Chihuahua, Mexico, inflicting 600 casualies while sustaining 200 themselves. The victory was a high point in the rebellion but two months later the rebels were defeated at the same location.{{cite book |last1=Tomán |first1=René De La Pedraja |title=Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941 |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland |page=166|isbn=9780786482573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhNzcCNIoeIC&q=Rellano&pg=PA171}}
  • The Greek Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos won a majority of seats in elections in Greece.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 829. {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}
  • Kopassis Effendi, the disliked Ottoman Prince-Governor of the Greek province of Samos, was assassinated by a Greek national."Turkish Governor Killed". New York Times. March 25, 1912.
  • Germany won the first Ligue International de Hockey sur Glace championship in Brussels.{{cite book |title=International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005 |last=Müller |first=Stephan |year=2005 |publisher=Books on Demand |location=Germany |isbn=3-8334-4189-5 |page= |pages= |url= |access-date=}}
  • Born: Dorothy Height, American activist, long-time president of the National Council of Negro Women; in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2010).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 25, 1912 (Monday)

March 26, 1912 (Tuesday)

  • Eighty-one miners were killed in an explosion at the Jed Coal and Coke Company near Welch, West Virginia."81 Instantly Killed in Mine Explosion". New York Times. March 27, 1912.
  • Police in Rock Island, Illinois fired into a crowd of rioters, killing three of them, as they marched toward City Hall against Mayor H.M. Schriver."Rock Island Mob Fired On; 3 Dead". New York Times. March 27, 1912,
  • Following the results of an earlier primary, the Arizona Senate selected Marcus A. Smith and Henry F. Ashurst as the new state's first U.S. Senators.
  • The gift by Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki of 3,000 cherry blossom trees arrived in Washington, D.C.Ann McClellan, The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration (Bunker Hill Publishing, 2005) p. 36.

March 27, 1912 (Wednesday)

  • The second government under Prime Minister Petre P. Carp was dissolved in Romania.{{cite book |first=Stelian |last=Neagoe |title=Istoria guvernelor României de la începuturi - 1859 până în zilele noastre - 1995 |trans-title=The history of Romanian governments from the beginning - 1859 to the present day - 1995 |language=ro |publisher=Ed. Machiavelli |location=Bucharest |year=1995}}
  • The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passed the Minimum Wage Bill, 213–48. The measure passed the House of Lords on the third reading, without dissent, two days later and royal assent was given the same day.{{cite news |title=Asquith in Tears; Strike Goes On |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 27, 1912}}{{cite news |title=Miners' Wage Bill Becomes Law To-Day |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 29, 1912}}
  • By a vote of 40–34 in the United States Senate, U.S. Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin was exonerated of charges of corruption in securing his 1907 election and allowed to return to his seat.
  • The New Mexico state legislature elected Albert B. Fall and Thomas B. Catron as the new state's first U.S. Senators, after eight ballots. Four legislators were arrested during the balloting on charges of soliciting bribes.{{cite news |title=New Mexico Senators |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 28, 1912}}

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  • Two weeks after the failure of his North American Wireless company, Lee de Forest, who had made radio broadcasting practical with the invention of the Audion tube, was served with an arrest warrant in Palo Alto, California, and charged in federal court with using the mail to defraud investors. He was kept out of jail by friends who posted his bond and would be acquitted of the charges in 1913.{{cite book |first=James A. |last=Hijiya |title=Lee de Forest and the Fatherhood of Radio |publisher=Lehigh University Press |year=1992 |page=88}}
  • Born: James Callaghan, British state leader, 94th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; in Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (d. 2005){{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/james-callaghan |title=James Callaghan |department=Past Prime Ministers |website=GOV.UK |access-date=26 December 2022}}

March 28, 1912 (Thursday)

March 29, 1912 (Friday)

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March 30, 1912 (Saturday)

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  • The French Third Republic established the French protectorate in Morocco after Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco signed the Treaty of Fes at 1:30 pm with a representative of the foreign ministry, effectively ending the Agadir Crisis that plagued the region throughout much of 1911."France Controls Morocco". New York Times. March 31, 1912. The "protection" included French power to introduce administrative, judicial, educational, economic, financial and military reforms" as deemed useful, and for the French Army to occupy Morocco as necessary to maintain order, and would last until 1956.James N. Sater, Morocco: Challenges to Tradition and Modernity (Taylor & Francis, 2009) pp. 17-18.
  • The Chamber of Deputies of France voted to approve a measure limiting a coal miner's work day.
  • Emperor Franz Joseph threatened to abdicate from the throne of Austria-Hungary if the governments of the two nations could not resolve their disagreement.
  • U.S. Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma was attacked with a club by Charles Schomulla while speaking at Waukesha, Wisconsin. One of the hosts, Judge P.C. Hamlin, pushed the would-be assassin off the stage. Senator Gore, who was blind, was unaware of the incident."Maniac Tries to Kill Gore". New York Times. March 31, 1912.
  • French runner Jean Bouin won the individual competition at the International Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, completing the 10-mile course with a time of 51 minutes and 46 seconds. The England men's team won the group competition.{{Citation |last=Magnusson |first=Tomas |date=March 24, 2007 |title=International Cross Country Championships - 16.1km CC Men - Edinburgh Saughton Public Park Date: Saturday, March 30, 1912 |url=http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_SM1912S.html |publisher=Athchamps (archived) |page= |language= |access-date=September 24, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804005617/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_SM1912S.html |archive-date=August 4, 2007 }}
  • In the annual race between the rowing teams of Oxford and Cambridge, both boats sank after being swamped in rough weather. The race was rowed again two days later, with Oxford as the victor."Crews Swamped in Race on the Thames". New York Times. March 31, 1912.
  • Born: Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricketer, bowler for the New Zealand national cricket team and Auckland cricket team from 1937 to 1949; in Auckland (d. 1994).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Died:
  • Karl May, 70, German, writer, author of adventure stories including the first Western novels (b. 1842).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Lina Ramann, 78, German, biographer of Franz Liszt (b. 1833).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

March 31, 1912 (Sunday)

  • General Leónidas Plaza, the victor over rebel army troops during the War of the Generals, was selected as the new President of Ecuador. He had previously been president from 1901 to 1905.
  • John Redmond, Eoin MacNeill, Patrick Pearse, Tim Healy and others address a monster meeting of 200,000 people in favour of home rule at the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, Dublin.{{cite web |title=Lecture: The Third Home Rule Bill |url=http://ashbournehistoricalsociety.com/the-1912-home-rule-bill-lecture-transcript/ |website=Ashbourne Historic Society |access-date=18 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724053720/http://ashbournehistoricalsociety.com/the-1912-home-rule-bill-lecture-transcript/ |archive-date=24 July 2021 |url-status=dead}}
  • Edward Smith arrived in Belfast to take command of the recently outfitted White Star Line ocean liner Titanic ten days before it was to begin its first voyage.Priscilla M. Cale and David C. Tate, Sink Or Swim: How Lessons from the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business (ABC-CLIO, 2011) p. 20.
  • The ship Terra Nova, which had carried Captain Scott's expedition party to Antarctica, arrived at New Zealand. Spokesmen reported that Scott's party had come within at least 150 miles of the South Pole and that he and the group would remain in the Antarctic for another winter, unaware that the five explorers had died on their way back from the South Pole.
  • French cyclist Henri Pélissier won the 6th Milan–San Remo, completing the 290-kilometre course with a time of 9 hours, 44 minutes, 30 seconds.{{cite web|url=http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/classics/Milan-San%20Remo/milan-san-remo-index.html|title=Milano - San Remo Bicycle Race|work=BikeRaceInfo|access-date=24 January 2018}}
  • Born: William Lederer, American writer, author of The Ugly American; in New York City (d. 2009).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
  • Died: Robert Love Taylor, 61, American politician, 24th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1850).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

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