1912
Despite his southern background and apparent indifference to black rights, Woodrow Wilson is supported for President by DuBois and the NAACP, who feel Wilson is a decent and principled man.
1912
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is published, spurring white recognition of black culture and the advent of the "Harlem Renaissance." Theaters in New York City are desegregated.
1912
Austrian DAP headquarters in Vienna are located in the same
district where Adolf Hitler has his apartment. (Unknown Nazis)
1912
Heinrich Class, the antisemitic chairman of the Alldeutscher
Verband (Pan-German League), publishes Wenn ich der Kaiser wär!
(If I was Kaiser!), appealing for the establishment of a dictatorship,
the suspension of parliament, and denouncing the Jews. (Roots)
1912
Philipp Stauff moves to Berlin where he soon publishes a
directory of Pan-German and antisemitic groups entitled Das deutsche
Wehrbuch (German Defense Book) for Heinrich Kraeger, who with Alfred
Brunner, will found the Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei in 1918. (Between 1912 and 1914, Stauff will publish Semi-Gotha and Semi-Alliancen, genealogical
handbooks which purport to identify Jews amongst the German aristocracy. These
and his other writings soon involve Stauff in a number of on-going legal suits.)
(Roots)
1912
American Indian, Jim Thorpe, wins both the decathlon and the
pentathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm. George S. Patton places fifth in
the pentathlon.
1912
Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili takes the alias "Stalin"
from the Russian word "stal" (steel). Between 1902 and 1912, Stalin
had been arrested many times, but escaped repeatedly to continue working as a
Bolshevik organizer. To obtain funds for the Bolsheviks, he staged a number of
robberies.
1912
Lenin rewards Stalin by naming him to the Bolshevik Central
Committee. From there, Stalin rapidly gains influence and power among the
Bolsheviks and becomes the first editor of Pravda, the party newspaper.
1912
David Mitford, Lord Redesdale, the father of Unity Mitford,
names his family property in Canada: Swastika. His father, Bertram Mitford, had
not only written the introduction to Houston Stewart Chamberlain's famous book,
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, but was also a close,
personal friend of the Wagner family. Richard Wagner's son, Siegfried, kept a
photo of Bertram Mitford on his desk until his death. (The House of Mitford)
1912
Levick Kaganovich and his family move to the U.S. Levick had been like a father to Lazar Kaganovich. His son, Morris, was Lazar's best friend.
1912
Lazar Kaganovich joins the Bolshevik party in Mozyr and is
designated as a party organizer.
1912
Johannes Baum founds the New Thought publishing house. Although
initially concerned with translations of American material, this firm will play
a vital role in German esoteric publishing during the 1920s. (Spirits in
Rebellion; Roots)
1912
Phillip Stauff becomes a committee member of the List Society
and a generous patron. (Roots)
1912
A U.S. federal committee investigates J.P. Morgan and his
various business operations. Many believe that his mergers and consolidations
have created unfair monopolies and developed restrictive trade practices.
1912
Archduke Otto von Habsburg (Hapsburg) is born.
1912
Rudolf Steiner breaks with the Theosophists and soon founds the Anthroposophical Society.
1912
The British luxury liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, 1517 die, only 706 manage to survive.
1912
Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro form the Balkan League for protection against their longtime common adversary--Ottoman Turkey.
1912
The Balkan League makes war on Turkey, successfully ousting the Turks from the Balkans during what is called the First Balkan War.
1912
Benito Mussolini becomes editor of the Milan-based, Socialist party newspaper Avanti!
1912
Colonel Edward Mandell House publishes Philip Dru, Administrator, a book who's hero seizes the government of the United States with the backing of a secret cartel of rich and powerful financiers. Dru describes his new government as "...Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx," and begins to adopt several key Marxist programs such as a graduated income tax and a graduated inheritance tax. He also prohibits the "selling of anything of value," just as described by Marx. Colonel House will later become President Woodrow Wilson's top personal advisor.
1912 January
The Deutsch-Soziale Reformpartei wins only three seats in the German parliament. (Roots)
1912 January 1
The Republic of China is founded, with Dr. Sun Yat-sen as the first provisional president.
1912 January 1
The lunar calendar is officially replaced by the Gregorian calendar in China.
