WHAT HAPPENED IN 1912.
Look what happened the 1912.

Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States. (5. November 1912)

The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio. (7. November 1912)

King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after it's liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule. (12. November 1912)

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (12. November 1912)

First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia. (19. November 1912)

Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. (27. November 1912)

Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. (28. November 1912)

Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) (3. December 1912)

Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. (8. December 1912)

First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. (16. December 1912)

The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson. (18. December 1912)

William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison. (19. December 1912)

The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. (28. December 1912)