WHAT HAPPENED IN 1912.
Look what happened the 1912.

The Republic of China is established. (1. January 1912)

The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal charter. (4. January 1912)

The Prague Party Conference takes place. (5. January 1912)

New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. (6. January 1912)

German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. (6. January 1912)

The African National Congress is founded. (8. January 1912)

Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week. (11. January 1912)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. (17. January 1912)

The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. (23. January 1912)

The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates. (12. February 1912)

Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. (14. February 1912)

In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned. (14. February 1912)

Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. (25. February 1912)

Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. (1. March 1912)

Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. (5. March 1912)

Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. (7. March 1912)

The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. (12. March 1912)

Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time." (16. March 1912)

Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. (30. March 1912)

The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. (2. April 1912)