August 1912

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August 7, 1912: Victor Hess (center) discovers cosmic rays
August 17, 1912: Legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow acquitted of criminal charges
August 12, 1912: Yusuf becomes new Sultan of Morocco as brother flees
August 11, 1912: Baseball legend Ty Cobb claims to have "killed a man" in Detroit

The following events occurred in August 1912:

August 1, 1912 (Thursday)

Alfred Cunningham USMC

August 2, 1912 (Friday)

August 3, 1912 (Saturday)

  • "Baby Seals Blues" was published in the form of sheet music; according to historian Rudi Blesh, the song by Arthur "Baby" Seales was the first blues song to use the word "blues" in its title, with "Dallas Blues" appearing the next month on September 28, while other sources describe "Dallas Blues" as having been introduced in March 1912.[8]
  • An attack by soldiers of Montenegro, against a Turkish border post, killed 30 Turks and 12 Montenegrins.[3]

August 4, 1912 (Sunday)

August 5, 1912 (Monday)

  • In Chicago, the Progressive Party, nicknamed the "Bull Moose" Party to rival the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey, called itself to order as its founding convention opened at noon.[14]

August 6, 1912 (Tuesday)

August 7, 1912 (Wednesday)

  • Physicist Victor Francis Hess of the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna, became the first person to discover cosmic rays. Hoping to build upon the research of Theodor Wulf, who had found that radioactive emission from Earth decreased measurably at higher altitudes, Hess sought to measure the decrease by venturing to greater heights in a balloon. On his seventh flight, he lifted off with a pilot and a meteorologist from Aussig (now Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic). To his surprise, the electroscopes on his balloon began measuring an increase in radiation at 5,350 feet, after a steady decrease during the ascent, and at 15,000 feet the amount doubled, showing that penetrating radiation was entering the atmosphere from a source other than the Sun.[17] Hess called the rays Höhenstrahlung, or radiation from above.[18]
  • The Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate for President of the United States and California Governor Hiram Johnson for vice-president.[19]
  • Three employees of the Union American Cigar Company at 28th and Smallman in Pittsburgh were killed, and 12 seriously injured, after a 24-ton water tank fell through the roof and the sixth floor, then into the fifth.[20]
  • Woodrow Wilson accepted the Democratic nomination for president, which had offered the previous month at the convention in Baltimore. The New Jersey Governor spoke at his home in Sea Girt, New Jersey, before a group of other Democrats who were state governors, and a crowd of 6,000 supporters.[21] New technology was used to capture the moment on phonographic records and films, so that American voters could see and hear the candidate.[22]
  • Died: François-Alphonse Forel, 71, Swiss biologist, credited for the creation of limnology, the study of the ecology of freshwater lakes (b. 1841)

August 8, 1912 (Thursday)

President Leconte
Pope Pius X

August 9, 1912 (Friday)

August 10, 1912 (Saturday)

August 11, 1912 (Sunday)

  • Major league baseball star Ty Cobb was in Detroit when he was jumped by three hoodlums while on his way to catch a train to Syracuse, New York, to appear for the Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game against the minor league Syracuse Stars, and cut on the back by a knife.[34] He played the next day while wearing "a blood-soaked, makeshift bandage", and would later tell biographer Al Stump that he had beaten one of his attackers to death.[35] However, lawyer and baseball fan Doug Roberts researched coroner records and press reports, and found no record of a body being found with head trauma during the summer of 1912, nor of mention in the Detroit newspapers, although Cobb was treated for a half inch long knife wound.[36]
  • An attack by Zapatista rebels on a train near Mexico City killed 35 soldiers and 20 civilians.[3]
  • Born:

August 12, 1912 (Monday)

August 13, 1912 (Tuesday)

August 14, 1912 (Wednesday)

August 15, 1912 (Thursday)

August 16, 1912 (Friday)

August 17, 1912 (Saturday)

August 18, 1912 (Sunday)

August 19, 1912 (Monday)

August 20, 1912 (Tuesday)

August 21, 1912 (Wednesday)

August 22, 1912 (Thursday)

August 23, 1912 (Friday)

  • Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared while his parents were on a fishing trip to a lake near their home in Opelousas, Louisiana. After an eight-month search by Bobby's father, police in Mississippi would announce that they had found the child under the care of handyman William Cantwell Walters, who said that he had been entrusted to take care of Bruce Anderson by Bruce's mother. In a dispute between the Dunbars and Mrs. Anderson, a court would award the boy to the Dunbars, while Walters would be convicted of kidnapping Bobby and serve two years before the verdict was reversed. In 2004, a DNA test would show that Walters had been right and that the child returned to the Dunbars had not been Bobby. It was presumed that the child raised by the Dunbars had been Bruce Anderson, who lived until 1966, and that Bobby Dunbar had died more than 91 years earlier.[61]
  • The Pure Food and Drug Act was amended to prohibit drug manufacturers from making false claims on the labels of medication.[62]
  • Sir Hugh Clifford was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana).[3]
  • Bandar Abbas in Persia (now Iran) was attacked by rebels.[3]
  • Born:

August 24, 1912 (Saturday)

  • The Panama Canal bill was signed into law, providing that, on the opening of the Canal in 1914, "no tolls shall be levied upon vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States". The discrimination in favor of American vessels would be repealed on June 15, 1914.[63]
  • The Lloyd–La Follette Act was passed, amending the U.S. Post Office Appropriations Act by prohibiting federal employees from being removed except for inefficiency, and not without written notice or a right to appeal.[64]
  • Alaska was made a U.S. territory by passage of the Second Organic Act, and given limited self-government. The U.S. government still controlled Alaska's natural resources. Although an elected Territorial Legislature was created, it could not pass any laws related to fishing, wildlife, soil, divorce, gambling or liquor.[65]
  • The collier USS Jupiter, first electrically propelled ship in the United States Navy, was launched. In 1922, after being decommissioned and refurbished, it would be commissioned as the first American aircraft carrier, the USS Langley.[66]
  • Serbians were massacred at Sjenica by Turkish troops in what is now Serbia.[67]
  • A native uprising at East Timor was put down by Portuguese troops.[3]
  • Born: Essie Summers, New Zealand romance writer, author of close to 60 novels, in Christchurch (d. 1998)

August 25, 1912 (Sunday)

Kuomintang emblem

August 26, 1912 (Monday)

August 27, 1912 (Tuesday)

August 28, 1912 (Wednesday)

Brusilov

August 29, 1912 (Thursday)

August 30, 1912 (Friday)

August 31, 1912 (Saturday)

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gollark: You can probably send raw Ethernet frames somehow on some devices.
gollark: Oh, sure.
gollark: ... define "raw data"?
gollark: OH BEE NETWORKING

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  5. "Turks Slew 140 Bulgarians", New York Times, August 11, 1912
  6. "Warning to Powers Adopted by Senate", New York Times, August 3, 1912, p. 2
  7. "Rush Gunboat to Nicaragua", New York Times, August 3, 1912
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  12. "Nine Boy Scouts Drown", New York Times, August 5, 1912
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  14. "Call New Party Into Life To-day", New York Times, August 5, 1912
  15. "Roosevelt's Own Creed Set Forth", New York Times, August 7, 1912
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  19. "Roosevelt Named Shows Emotion", New York Times, August 8, 1912
  20. "Girls Killed at Work- Heavy Water Tank Crashes Through Roof of Pittsburgh Factory", New York Times, August 8, 1912, p. 2
  21. "Thousands Hear Wilson Accept", New York Times, August 8, 1912
  22. "Phonograph to Give Wilson to All of Us", ", New York Times, August 9, 1912
  23. "103 German Miners Killed", New York Times, August 9, 1912
  24. "Explosion Kills Haitian President", New York Times, August 9, 1912
  25. "Kaiser Praises the Krupps", New York Times, August 9, 1912
  26. "Earthquake Kills Hundreds of Turks", New York Times, August 11, 1912; "Earthquake Killed 3,000", New York Times, August 18, 1912
  27. "Earthquake Upsets a Lamp", New York Times, August 10, 1912
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  29. "Senate, by 47 to 15, Passes Canal Bill", New York Times, August 10, 1912
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  34. "Cobb Helps Tigers Beat Syracuse", New York Times, August 13, 1912
  35. Al Stump, Cobb: A Biography (Algonquin Books, 1994) pp. 11-12
  36. Sean Peter Kirst, The Ashes of Lou Gehrig and Other Baseball Essays (McFarland, 2003) pp. 13-18
  37. "Polio victim's life honored with scholarship", by Wayne Quesenberry, Wytheville (VA) Enterprise, August 8, 2012
  38. "Morocco's Sultan Will Abdicate", New York Times, August 12, 1912
  39. Thammy Evans, Macedonia (Bradt Travel Guides, 2010) p. 118
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  51. "Negro Murderess Executed", New York Times, August 17, 1912
  52. "Darrow Acquitted; May Be Tried Again", New York Times, August 18, 1912
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  58. "Becker Indicted With Six Others; Jury Applauds", New York Times, August 21, 1912
  59. "Frenchmen in Moors' Hands", New York Times, August 26, 1912
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