WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened January to September 1912

Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. (5. March 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)

The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event. (30. June 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)

The African National Congress is founded. (8. January 1912)

Alaska becomes a United States territory. (24. August 1912)

Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. (22. April 1912)

Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland. (28. September 1912)

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

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. (30. July 1912)

U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier. (14. August 1912)

The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. (2. April 1912)

The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. (28. September 1912)

New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. (6. January 1912)

The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom. (13. May 1912)

The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum. (6. August 1912)

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. (25. September 1912)

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

The Republic of China is established. (1. January 1912)

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