TWO ATTACKS ON TURKEY AND GLOBAL EVENTS OF 1900s
A compact chronicle lists 1900s era milestones including U S actions on Cuba unrest, China’s upheavals with Yuan Shih Kai, Taft and Roosevelt politics, and multiple sporting and Olympic results spanning Europe and America with names like Wilson Travers Thorpe and Kiviat noted among events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Arizona
Union
Yuan Shih Kai
Roosevelt
Balkan War Front Events Across 1912 Frontline Clashes
Balkan states and Turkey engaged in a wide array of clashes from Adrianople to Saloniki. Bulgarians and Serbs captured key forts and towns including Kirk Kilise and Durazzo as Greece joined the war and a Balkan armistice was signed with Turkey amid negotiations near Constantinople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Italy
Turkey
Tripoli
Balkan States
Adrianople
Ston Telegri
Turey
Detchitch Mountain
Bscutari
Bulgaria
Servia
Greece
Ferdinand of
Kirk Killse
Kirk Kilise
Kumanova
Salonicki
Constantinople
Balkan
Monastir
Durazzo
Adriatic Sea
United States
Connecticut
Mulai Hafid
Morocco
Mulaf Youssef
Newtown
Conn
Taft
Storms and Earthquakes Through the Year
Chronicle of severe weather and natural disasters listing blizzards wrecking rail and telegraph, tornadoes killing dozens across Missouri Texas Ohio and Illinois, floods in the Mississippi basin, cyclones in Mexico and Canada, earthquakes in Turkey and Mexico, typhoons in China and the Philippines, and heavy snows in lake states and valleys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Pacific Coast
Mexico
Lake States
Mississippi Valley
Mixed World Events and Disasters Chronology 1912 Snapshot
A broad list of 1912 happenings across nations and industries. Mentions include Naval moves from Manila to China, Maine battleship flotations, disasters in aviation and mining strikes, political upheavals in Mexico, and notable explorations and records in air and sea travel. The compilation reads as a year-in-history digest with dates, places, and prominent names.
World Sport Highlights From January and February
Kohlemainen of Finland wins Edinburgh marathon world title in 2 hours 32 minutes 6 seconds. Reilly sets Milwaukee ski jump record at 137 feet. Bonhag clocks 15 minutes 45 seconds for 56 000 meters in New York, world mark. Macdonald throws 18 pound shot 44 feet 2.5 inches in New York, a record. Eller sets new 7 yard hurdle mark in New York. Hoppe defends balk line title. Kil lards defeats Sutton 500 to 280 in New York. Lawrence breaks indoor high jump world mark with 6 feet 4.75 inches in Boston. Kilbane beats Attell in 20 rounds for featherweight title in Los Angeles. Postle and Fohyer noted for a 150 yard dash in 14 1 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Sutton
United States
Mary Brown
Pittsburgh
Jack Johnson
Jim Flynn
East Las Vegas
N. M
Ad Wolgast
Joe Rivers
Los Angeles
Cal
Stockholm
Jim Thorpe
Carlisle
Ted Meredith
K. K. McArthur
South Africa
America
Sweden
England
Thorpe
Arthur Chapple
Brighton Beach
N. Y
Ernest Barry
Richard Arnst
Australia
Thames
Jerome Travers
Charles Evans, Jr
Wheaton
Chicago Americans
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston Red Sox
New York Club
National Baseball League
Boston
New York
Matt McGrath
Ralph de Palma
Wauwatosa
Wis
Margaret Curtis
Manchester
Mass
Indianapolis
Theodore Roosevelt
Milwaukee
John Schrank
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Madero
Felix Diaz
Diaz
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
New York City
James Gordon Bennett
Stuttgart
Germany
Moscow
Russia
Kohlemainen
Finland
Edinburgh
Barney Reilly
George Bonhag
Pat Macdonald
Jack Eller
Willie Hoppe
Killards
George Sutton
C. Lawrence
Kilbane
Attell
Associations Meet in Various Cities Across Nations
The record lists multiple groups and their annual or in-session meetings including United Mine Workers in Indianapolis American Academy in Philadelphia Colonial Dames in Washington United Confederate Veterans in Macon Georgia Sons of the American Revolution in Boston National Education Association in Chicago and International Typographical Union in Cleveland among others in 20th century convention notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett H. Young
United Confederate Veterans
Christian X
Socialist National Convention
Indianapolis
Eugene V. Deby
Emil Seidel
Taft
United States
Cuba
United States Senate
Progressive Party
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Hiram Johnson
Progressive National Convention
United Mine Workers of America
Colonial Dames
Washington
Macon
Sons of the American Revolution
Boston
The
National Education Association
American Federation of Labor
Rochester
Daughters of the Confederacy
National Woman Suffrage Association
Philadelphia
Death Roll of Noted Figures Across Nations
A list of prominent figures including Alfred Tennyson Dickens and Rear Admiral Robley Evans among many others in cities like New York Philadelphia Washington and London. The roster notes ages from 41 to 97 and spans writers actors military leaders and solvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Tennyson Dickens
New York
Robley D. Evans
Washington
Wilram Lochren
Pensions
Minneapolis
Minn
W. Melville
Philadelphia
H. H. Bingham
Congress
House
Robert Love Taylor
Tennessee
Bob
Disasters at Sea Listing Multiple Historic Sinkings
A compiled report lists several maritime disasters including the Russian steamer Russ foundered in the Black Sea with 172 lost, Wiston Hall wreck off Aberdeen with 68 drowned, the PA-3 torpedo boat sunk off Isle of Wight with 1 crewman drowned, and the American schooner Patricia m wrecked near Cape Sable with captain and nine crew dead. It notes the Titanic collision near longitude 60 14 W and latitude 41 46 N with 707 saved out of 2208, and other losses including the Orient liner Oceana, the Texas sunk under Turkish flag with deaths, the French sub Vendemaire, the British B-2 sub cut in two, and Centurion sinking the Derna with all hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russ
Black Sea
Yves
Wiston Hall
Aberdeenshire
Hazard
Isle of Wight
Cape Sable
English Channel
Isidor Straus
Col. J. J. Astor
Texas
Gulf of Smyrna
Deadly Mining and Rail Disasters listed by date
A compiled list records multiple fatal and injurious accidents across years and states. Key incidents include 21 May deaths from a Kemmerer Wyoming mining dust explosion with 16 miners killed and 40 injured. Other events name officials and rail line wrecks with fatalities in Kinmundy Illinois, San Antonio Texas, McCurtain Oklahoma, and more, culminating in December Dresden Ohio collisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kemmerer
Wyo
Lands Central
Kinmundy
Road
J. T. Harahan
II. O. Melcher
Rock Island
E.B. Pierce
Fires Light Up Cities with Massive Losses Across the World
A sweeping list records fire disasters including 6 killed and 19 injured in New York at the Equitable Life Assurance building, Osaka losses near 13 million, Pittsfield Academy of Music blaze at 300 thousand, a 1.5 million factory fire in Philadelphia, and Houston homes and business districts struck for multi‑million damages. Additional blazes hit Atlantic City Young’s pier, Damascus bazaar, Baltimore Eutaw House, Constantinople districts, Merth Adams, Thousand Island Park, Vancouver, Ocean Park Los Angeles, and a Philadelphia railroad pier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable Life Assurance
New York
Persona
Osaka
Japan
Joss
Academy of Music
Pittsfield
Maes
Merth Adams
Mass
Thousand Island Park
Vancouver
B. Cc
Ocean Park
Los Angeles
Cal
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Island
Mahlon Pitney
New Jersey
United States Supreme Court
State Department
W. H. Taft
James
Sherman
Republican Party
Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
Thomes Marshall
Atlantic City
N.S
William Lori Association
Alfred B. Beers
Woodrow Willson
Thomas R. Marshall
Indiana
Wilson
Debs
Chafin
Great Britain
Staunton
Auckland
New Zealand
Oxford
Cambridge
Nutes
Mike Ryan
New York Athletic Club
Ameren
Jerome D. Travers
Oswald Kirkby
Short Hills
Abel R. Kiviat
James Duncan
Kiviat
Tagalle
Epsom
Wright
Harvard
Yale
New London
Cornell
Poughkeepsier
Varsity
American Press Association
Joe Wood
Princeton
Soldiers' Field
Wisconsin
Madison
Carlisle Indians
Army
West Point
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Minnesota
Ann Arbor
New Haven
B. Ad. Wolgast
Willie Ritchie
Daly City
Oak
New
Ferdinand
Kansas
Lakes
Trafic
Missouri
Louisiana
Mississippi
Miinois
Oklahoma
Ohio
Ives
Guanajuato
Regina
Wheat City
Saskatchewan
Denver
Mazuma
Seventroughs
Nev
Gallipoli
Niles
Mich
Chekiang Province
Panhandle
West Virginia
Green Bay
Philippines
New Mexico
Manila
Charles W. Morse
Atlanta
Rutherford Page
Havana
International Association of Bridge and Structural
Jungfrau
Alps
Plercea
Juarez
Arch
Amundsen
South Pole
Lawrence
Maine
Chicago’ Meat Packers
Aigzntic
Pacific
Long Beach
Confederation
Southampton
Harriet Quimby
Mackay Bennett
Halifax
Wilkenbarre
Philip O. Parmalee
North Yakima
Wash
Fort Monroe
Hudson
Dubois
Albert Peignan
Douai
France
Harrilet Quimby
Akron
N. J
Melvin Vaniman
Champlain
Crown Point
Uncle Sam
Kansas City
Manassas
Marosuke Nog
Port Arthur
Tokyo
Altoona
Pulitzer School of Journalism
Columbia University
James Bryce
Spain
Canalejas
Madrid
J. A. Dix
A. T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Pacific Railway
Garros
Tunis
E.arthur. Postle
Fohyer
American Academy of Political Social Science
General Federation of Woman's Clubs
San Francisco
International Typographical Union
Cleveland, O
American Bankers’ Association
Detroit
American Road Congress
International Conservation Congress
Indianapolia
Portland, Ore
Richmond
American Association For Labor Legislation
American Association For the Adwakesntat 2 of
Cleve
J. B. Weaver
Des Moines
Charles Loyson
Pere Hyacinthe
Paris
Roger A. Pryor
Daughters of the American Revolution
I. K. Funk
Montclair
Emily Soldene
Smorton
I N Lonon
Frederick Dent Grant
Gen. A. & Grant
Clara Barton
American Red Cross Society
Glen Echo
W. U. Stead
Francis D. Miller
Jacques Futrelle
Justin McCarthy
Folkestone
Englands
Homer C. Davenport
New Yorks
Frederick VIII
Denmark
Hamburg
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
Margaret Sangster
Maplewood
Eliza Archard Conner
Soci
Lottie Gilson
Robert Frederick S Hoke
Raleigh
N. C
Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Wilzabeth Barrett Browning
Asolo
Andrew Lang
Banchory
Scotland
Fannie Denham Rouse
Ohioville
Matsuhito
Emperor of Japan
Kragon Yoshihito
Marsenet
Morace Howard Yarnace
Wallingford
William Booth
Salvation Army
London
Maj. A. R. Calhoun
Brookelyn
Arthur MacArthur
Hernando de Soto Money
Gulfport
Misa
Baron Marschall von Bieberstein
Berlin
W. A. Peffer
Senate
Grenola
Kan
Weldon Brinton Heyburn
Idaho
Robert Barr
Woldingham
Gen. H. B. Carrington
Mme, Judith
Rachel
Hugo
George Sand
Paria
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Uti
Harris & Ewing
Minnie Hauk-Wartegs
Carmen
Munich
Bavaria
Rayner
Fee
Maryland
United
Bta
Ator
Nevada
James Gordon
Ciolona
Miss
Robert Collyer
Julius H. Stahel
Col. Astor
Centurion
Derna
Engish Channel
San Antonio
San Bois
McCurtain
Oklo
Jed. W. Va
Eagle Park
Grand Island
Niagara River
Dela Ware and Lackawanna
Gibson's Narrows
Ligonter Valley
Wilepen
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Western Springs
Yazoo
Montz
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Decemdur
Dresden
Downey
Lansing
Houston
Tex
Young's Pier
Damascus
Syria
B. and. O
United States Arsenal
Benicia
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