WHAT HAPPENED IN 1912.
Look what happened the 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)

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

The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded. (25. August 1912)

Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. (2. September 1912)

Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands (4. September 1912)

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

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

U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. (3. October 1912)

The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. (7. October 1912)

First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. (8. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani. (11. October 1912)

While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. (14. October 1912)

Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. (17. October 1912)

First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war. (18. October 1912)

Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire. (19. October 1912)

First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces (21. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. (23. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory. (24. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje. (26. October 1912)