First Balkan War: Greek Navy Captures Lemnos for Dardanelles Base, October 21, 1912
Date: October 21, 1912
Date: October 21, 1912
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. Date: January 17, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 17 📅 Events on this day in 1912 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1912Russian Troops Kill 150 Striking Goldfield Workers in Siberia,…
Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 1,800 m. Date: March 6, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 6 📅 Events on this day in 1912 📅 On This Day (Today)…
Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. Date: December 8, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1912 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1912First Enlisted Man Dies in Airplane…
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. Date: January 6, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 6 📅 Events on this day in 1912 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1912First International Opium Convention Signed at The Hague, January 23, 1912RMS Carpathia Brings Titanic…
First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. Date: October 23, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 23 📅 Events on this day in 1912 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1912Novarupta Eruption Begins in Alaska, Largest 20th-Century Volcanic Eruption, June 6,…
Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. Date: October 14, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 14 📅 Events on this day in…