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Significant Events and Figures of 1912

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 1912, covering various fields such as politics, economics, and sports.

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1 ________ – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

2 ________ – Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (d.

3 ________, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.

4 ________, senior wireless officer of the Titanic (b.

5 ________, Norwegian figure skater (d.

6 ________ – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d.

7 June 18 – The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in ________, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention.

8 ________ – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (d.

9 ________ – Edward Short, British politician

10 January 5 – Prague Party Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the ________ Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Overseas Railroad, completed in 1912 for 128 miles (206 kilometers) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula to Key West, was heavily damaged in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and not rebuilt.
  • the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912, when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat, the founder of Great Bulgaria.
  • the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s.
  • an industrial process for making instant mashed potatoes was patented in 1912.
  • Lighthouse Hill on Staten Island got its name from the Staten Island Lighthouse, built in 1912, which towers 141 feet (43 meters) above the Lower New York Bay and can be seen as far as 18 miles (29 km) away.
  • after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay (pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912.
  • Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912.
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