What Happened in March 1912

Historical Events

Mar 7 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

Mar 11 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
Mar 11 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.

Mar 12 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low

Mar 12 Helen Hayes Theater (Little Theatre) opens at 240W 44th St, NYC

Mar 12 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
Mar 13 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
Mar 13 Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria, but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey
Mar 14 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt

Mar 15 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

Mar 29 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

Mar 1 Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
Mar 2 Arthur Beaumont C Langton, cricketer (South African pace bowler of 1930's)
Mar 3 Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
Mar 4 Afro, [Basaldella], Italian painter
Mar 4 Carl Marzani, Italian-born American leftwing political activist, publisher and documentarian, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1994)
Mar 6 Madge Adam, astronomer
Mar 8 Preston Smith, 40th Governor of Texas, born in Williamson County, Texas (d. 2003)
Mar 9 Alan David Melville, polymath
Mar 11 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
Mar 11 Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
Mar 12 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
Mar 12 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
Mar 12 Paul Weston [Wetstein], American orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour, Crescent City Suite), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
Mar 12 Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
Mar 13 Ernst Hess, Swiss composer, born in Schaffhausen (d. 1968)
Mar 13 Igor Youskevitch, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer, born in Pyriatyn, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine (d. 1994)
Mar 13 James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
Mar 14 Les Brown, American big band leader (His Band of Renown - "Sentimental Journey"), born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
Mar 15 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot

Mar 15 Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, American blues musician (Ball of Twine), born in Centerville, Texas (d. 1982)

Mar 15 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
Mar 16 Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
Mar 19 Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
Mar 19 Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
Mar 21 Peter Bull, British actor and author (The African Queen, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove), born in London, England (d. 1984)
Mar 22 Henri Rousselot, admiral
Mar 22 Lord Alport [Cuthbert Alport], politician, cabinet minister, and life peer
Mar 22 Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (Hard Day's Night, Steptoe and Son), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1985)
Mar 22 Karl Malden [Mladen George Sekulovich], American actor (Streets of San Francisco, American Express, A Streetcar Named Desire), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2009)
Mar 23 Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (Olympic-2 golds-1936)

Mar 23 Werner von Braun, German rocket scientist (I Aim at the Stars), born in Wirsitz, Germany (now Wyrzysk, Poland) (d. 1977)

Mar 24 Dorothy Height, American civil rights and women's rights activist (National Council of Negro Women), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2010)

Mar 25 Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor and director (Théâtre National Populaire), born in Sète, France (d. 1971)

Mar 27 James Callaghan, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1976-79), born in Portsmouth, England (d. 2005)

Mar 27 Reuel Lahmer, composer, born in Maple, Ontario
Mar 27 Robert Watson Hughes, Scottish-Australian composer, born in Levan, Inverclyde, Scotland (d. 2007)
Mar 28 A. Bertram Chandler, AngloAustralian mariner and sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), born in Aldershot, England (d. 1984)
Mar 28 Marina Raskova, Russian navigator, born in Moscow (d. 1943)
Mar 29 Hanna Reitsch, German aviator and test pilot, born in Hirschberg, Silesia (d. 1979)
Mar 30 Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist
Mar 30 Jack Cowie, cricketer (successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII)
Mar 31 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter

Mar 1 George Grossmith, British actor, comedian and writer (The Diary of a Nobody, A Society Clown), dies at 64
Mar 15 Louis van Westerhoven, Dutch actor, singer and opera director (Youth), dies at 58
Mar 17 Lawrence "Titus" Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), sacrifices himself during the Terra Nova Expedition at 32

Mar 29 Robert Falcon Scott, British pole explorer, dies in Antarctica at 43