WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1912
Find out what all happened January to June 1912

Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. (14. February 1912)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. (17. January 1912)

The Prague Party Conference takes place. (5. January 1912)

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive. (15. April 1912)

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. (4. June 1912)

Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. (1. March 1912)

The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates. (12. February 1912)

Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. (25. February 1912)

Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures. (8. June 1912)

The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. (23. January 1912)

Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. (30. March 1912)

Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week. (11. January 1912)

German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. (6. January 1912)

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm (sinks morning of April 15th). (14. April 1912)

Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. (16. April 1912)

Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes. (4. May 1912)

The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa. (10. June 1912)

Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. (7. March 1912)

The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal charter. (4. January 1912)

The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai. (18. May 1912)