May 1912

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May 23, 1912: Imperator, world's largest ocean liner, is launched
May 14, 1912: Denmark's King Frederik VIII dies during German visit
May 18, 1912: USS Texas, largest U.S. warship, launched
May 24, 1912: Piltdown Man hoax continues with delivery of skull fragments
May 18, 1912: Kongō, Japan's largest Japanese battleship is launched

The following events occurred in May 1912:

May 1, 1912 (Wednesday)

May 2, 1912 (Thursday)

  • The royal commission headed by Lord Mersey began their investigation of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 16.[6]
  • The "Symphony for Negro Music" was performed at Carnegie Hall by the all-black Clef Club Orchestra, with 125 singers and musicians led by conductor James Reese Europe, and marked the most prestigious event for African-American musicians up to that time.[7]
  • Italian Army Captain Alberto Margenhi Marengoon made the first nighttime reconnaissance flight in history, using an airplane to assess Ottoman troop strength near Benghazi, Libya.[8]

May 3, 1912 (Friday)

May 4, 1912 (Saturday)

May 5, 1912 (Sunday)

  • The first competitive events of the 1912 Summer Olympics took place in Stockholm, Sweden, with lawn tennis being played until May 12. Most of the competition took place between June 29 and July 22, with the opening ceremonies being held on July 6.[15]
  • Vladimir Lenin began the daily publication of Pravda (Russian for "The Truth") the official newspaper of the Communist Party in Saint Petersburg, and later the leading daily paper for the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991. The first issue carried the date "22 April 1912" (22 Апрель 1912),[16] in that Russia was still using the Julian Calendar, which was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar. The paper would later carry the slogan "Newspaper founded 5 May 1912 by V. I. Lenin".[17]
  • The first issue of Our Sunday Visitor, was introduced in Catholic churches throughout the United States. The 35,000 copies of the first issue sold for one cent apiece.[18]
  • Born: Adolf Ottman, Anne-Marie Ottman, Emma Ottman and Elisabeth Ottman, the longest-lived quadruplets to date, in Munich. All four were 79 years, 316 days old when Adolf became the first to pass away on March 17, 1992.[19]

May 6, 1912 (Monday)

May 7, 1912 (Tuesday)

May 8, 1912 (Wednesday)

  • Pascual Orozco, who had helped in the revolution that made Francisco I. Madero the President of Mexico six months earlier, then led a second revolution against Madero, ordered his 6,000 insurrectionists to fight against Madero's troops at the state of Coahuila. Reports of the day described the oncoming clash as "the greatest body of rebels and government troops that has ever come together...in what is expected to be the turning point of the revolution".[25]

May 9, 1912 (Thursday)

Samson takes off

May 10, 1912 (Friday)

May 11, 1912 (Saturday)

May 12, 1912 (Sunday)

May 13, 1912 (Monday)

  • The United States House of Representatives voted 237-39 to send the proposed Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to the 48 states for ratification. The amendment, which provided for U.S. Senators to be elected directly by popular vote, rather than by the state legislatures, followed 86 years worth of rejections. In 1894, 1898, 1900 and 1902, the House had approved an amendment and the Senate had rejected it.[33] The Amendment would be ratified by April 8, 1913, after Connecticut became the 36th of 48 states to give its approval.[34]
  • The remains of three people, who had been able to escape the sinking RMS Titanic in a lifeboat, but died while awaiting rescue, were located by another White Star Line steamer, RMS Oceanic.[35][36] Passenger Thomson Beattie and two of the ship's firemen (who could not be identified) had managed to get into one of the collapsible lifeboats, but drifted for a month after the ship sank, dying from hypothermia or thirst along the way.[37] Another three bodies of Titanic victims were recovered by the Canadian government ship Montmagny and brought to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, where they were shipped to Halifax via the Sydney and Louisburg Railway.[38]
  • The first jury trial ever conducted in China began in Shanghai.[39]
  • Italian ships captured more islands from the Ottoman Empire, seizing Piskopi, Nisero, Kalismo, Leno and Patmos.[12]
  • A Flanders monoplane crashed at Brooklands, Surrey, England, killing the pilot and passenger. The accident led to the first known investigation into an air crash, with the conclusion being pilot error.[40]
  • Born: Gil Evans, Canadian jazz composer, best known for his collaborations with Miles Davis, as Ian Ernest Gilmore Green, in Toronto (d. 1988)

May 14, 1912 (Tuesday)

King Christian X
  • King Frederick of Denmark collapsed and died during an evening stroll while on vacation in Germany. Found alone, and with no identification, the 68-year old monarch was taken as a "John Doe" to a morgue in a local hospital before his fellow travelers realized he was missing.[41]
  • Saved from the Titanic, a silent film produced by the Eclair Film Company and starring Dorothy Gibson, was released in the United States. Coming out on the one-month anniversary of the day RMS Titanic struck the iceberg, it was the first disaster film, and the first to use special effects, interspersing film of the RMS Olympic with models "sometimes resembling a toy boat in a bathtub" to recreate the sinking. Ms. Gibson, at the time the most famous movie star in America, actually had been a passenger on the ship when it began to sink, and literally had been "saved from the Titanic".[42]
  • China's legislature rejected the six power railroad loan agreement.[39]
  • In the California presidential primaries, Theodore Roosevelt won all 26 of the Republican delegates, defeating William Howard Taft in all 58 counties. Former House Speaker Champ Clark won the Democratic delegates, defeating Woodrow Wilson by a 2-1 ratio. Women, though not allowed to vote in national elections, were able to participate in the primaries.[43]
  • Died:

May 15, 1912 (Wednesday)

Batting king (.367) Ty Cobb

May 16, 1912 (Thursday)

  • Two small boys who had survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic were reunited with their mother after having been identified. Michel Navratil, Jr., 3, and Edmond Navratil, 2, had been placed into a lifeboat by their father.[49] Michel would be the last male survivor of the disaster, dying on January 31, 2001.[50]
  • Born: Studs Terkel, American journalist, best known for promoting oral history in nonfiction, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Good War, in New York City (d. 2008)

May 17, 1912 (Friday)

May 18, 1912 (Saturday)

May 19, 1912 (Sunday)

  • Julia Clark of Great Britain became only the third woman in history to receive an airplane pilot's license. On June 17, she would become the first woman to be killed while piloting an airplane.[54]

May 20, 1912 (Monday)

May 21, 1912 (Tuesday)

May 22, 1912 (Wednesday)

  • The U.S. Marines entered into military aviation, as 2nd Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham reported for flight training at the Navy Aviation Center.[61]
  • Count István Tisza, formerly the Prime Minister of Hungary, was elected President of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies after a fight between the legislators. Reportedly, "all the inkpots and other articles that could be used as missiles were removed from the chamber before the voting began", and the Socialist Union party members walked out after fistfights broke out.[62]
  • Massachusetts became the first state to ratify the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as the state Senate voted 30-0 in favor of direct election of U.S. Senators, after the House had approved the measure by acclamation.[63]
  • The steamer Algerine recovered the body of Titanic saloon steward James McGrady.[64]
  • Born: Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this research into organoboron chemistry, as Herbert Brovarnik, in London (d. 2004)

May 23, 1912 (Thursday)

Haakon, Christian and Gustaf

May 24, 1912 (Friday)

May 25, 1912 (Saturday)

  • In Tyler, Texas, Dan Davis, an African-American who had confessed to raping and then slitting the throat of a young white woman on May 13, was burned at the stake after a mob of 2,000 people overpowered his jailers. Davis's executioners had brought "several wagon loads of wood" to the town's public square and tied him to a rail. After Davis said, "I am guilty," he was set ablaze.[69]

May 26, 1912 (Sunday)

May 27, 1912 (Monday)

May 28, 1912 (Tuesday)

May 29, 1912 (Wednesday)

May 30, 1912 (Thursday)

Wilbur Wright

May 31, 1912 (Friday)

gollark: Well, yes, that's fair, in that it kind of mimics them.
gollark: ... so it's *not* like a real market?
gollark: If people detect what they think is a pricing error in the market, they can make money off it, providing incentives.
gollark: Because they get dividends based on how well it does.
gollark: That is the whole reason they work.

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  2. "Official Schedule of the United States League, Season 1912". Richmond Times-Dispatch. April 8, 1912. p. 6.
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  11. "Italian Fleet Seizes Rhodes". The New York Times. May 5, 1912.
  12. The Britannica Year-Book 1913: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1913. pp. xxvi–xxvii.
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  22. "Cable Ship Brings More Titanic Dead", New York Times, May 6, 1912; "Cold Killed Many of Titanic Victims", New York Times, May 7, 1912
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  43. "Roosevelt Wins in California", New York Times, May 15, 1912
  44. "Austrian Premier Blind", New York Times, May 16, 1912
  45. "Cobb Whips Hilltop Fan for Insults; Detroit Player Hurdles Into the Stand and Thrashes a Profane Commentator", New York Times, May 16, 1912
  46. "Denies Insulting Cobb", New York Times, May 19, 1912
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