March 1912 in History

Events in History

Mar 7 Roald Amundsen announces his discovery of the South Pole (located 14 December 1911)

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 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 16 American first lady Helen Herron Taft plants the 1st cherry tree in Washington, D.C.
Mar 17 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
Mar 27 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.

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 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 11 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
Mar 12 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
Mar 12 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
Mar 12 Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
Mar 13 James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
Mar 15 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot

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 22 Henri Rousselot, French admiral (submarine commander during WWII), born in Lorraine, France (d. 1994)
Mar 22 Lord Alport [Cuthbert Alport], politician, cabinet minister, and life peer
Mar 22 Agnes Martin, Canadian-American abstract painter, born in Macklin, Saskatchewan (d. 2004)

Mar 23 Wernher 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 27 James Callaghan, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1976-79), born in Portsmouth, England (d. 2005)

Mar 28 A. Bertram Chandler, Anglo-Australian 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, Scottish zoologist, specializing in malacology (mollusks) and entomology (insects), born in Ollaberry, Shetland, Scotland
Mar 31 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter

Mar 1 Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (Council President of Denmark), dies at 72
Mar 6 August Toepler, German physicist, dies at 75
Mar 17 Lawrence "Titus" Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), sacrifices himself during the Terra Nova Expedition at 32
Mar 22 Henry Harrison Walker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 79

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