December 1912

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December 6, 1912: Authentic bust of Egypt's Queen Nefertiti discovered after 32 centuries
December 19, 1912: The original "Star Spangled Banner" is donated to the Smithsonian
December 18, 1912: Fake prehistoric "missing link" Eoanthropus dawsoni presented to British scientists

The following events occurred in December 1912:

December 1, 1912 (Sunday)

December 2, 1912 (Monday)

December 3, 1912 (Tuesday)

December 4, 1912 (Wednesday)

December 5, 1912 (Thursday)

December 6, 1912 (Friday)

  • In excavations at Tell al-Amarna in Egypt, the Nefertiti Bust was unearthed, intact, after a burial of 32 centuries. The team, led by a team led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt, discovered the limestone statue of the head and shoulders of the wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten (who reigned 1353 BC to 1336 BC), while sifting through the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose. Borchardt concluded that the statue had once set upon a wooden shelf, next to a similar bust of Akhenaten, until termite damage caused both objects to topple; and while the pharaoh's statue was shattered, Nefertiti's bust survived because it had happened to land, upside down, on its flat top.[21]
  • Count Terauchi Masatake, the Governor-General of Korea, was asked by the Emperor to form a new government as Prime Minister of Japan.[22]
  • Vladimir, the Metropolitan of Moscow, was appointed President of the Russian Orthodox Synod and Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg as well.[2]

December 7, 1912 (Saturday)

December 8, 1912 (Sunday)

December 9, 1912 (Monday)

December 10, 1912 (Tuesday)

December 11, 1912 (Wednesday)

December 12, 1912 (Thursday)

December 13, 1912 (Friday)

December 14, 1912 (Saturday)

December 15, 1912 (Sunday)

December 16, 1912 (Monday)

  • The Balkan Peace Conference was opened at St. James's Palace in London by Secretary of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey.[2][49] On the same day, the navies of Greece and Turkey fought a battle at the entrance of the Bosporus strait. The Turkish fleet, with 4 battleships, 9 destroyers and 6 torpedo boats opened fire on a Greek battleship squadron which arrived from the island of Imbros. The Greek fleet retaliated ten minutes later, sending the Turkish ships in retreat, and the battle ended at 10:30 am, forty minutes after it began. The Greeks sustained 8 casualties and no major damage, while the Turks lost 58 killed and wounded.[50]
  • Shinano Railway extended the Ōito Line in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with station Itoigawa serving the line.[51]
  • A narrow gauge rail line of 24 miles 48 chains (39.6 kilometres) in length opened between Bergrivier to Vredenburg, Western Cape, South Africa.[8]

December 17, 1912 (Tuesday)

December 18, 1912 (Wednesday)

December 19, 1912 (Thursday)

Friday, December 20, 1912 (Friday)

  • Greek forces captured Korytsa in the Ottoman-held territory of what is now present-day Albania.[63]
  • Twenty-two of the 27 people on the British steamer Florence were killed off of the coast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.[64]
  • General Louis Botha returned as Prime Minister of South Africa and formed a new cabinet.[2]
  • J. H. Logue, a Chicago diamond merchant, was brutally murdered in his office in midday. Logue was gagged, stabbed 17 times, shot in his right shoulder, had his skull crushed, had part of his right thumb severed, and had his mouth burned with acid. The killing was believed to have been revenge for Logue's prosecution of diamond thieves in 1905 and 1906.[65] Five men and four women were arrested the next day in connection with the killing.[66]
  • A rail line of 10 miles 31 chains (16.7 kilometres) in length opened between Melk to Motkop, Western Cape, South Africa.[8]

December 21, 1912 (Saturday)

Sunday, December 22, 1912 (Sunday)

December 23, 1912 (Monday)

December 24, 1912 (Tuesday)

December 25, 1912 (Wednesday)

1912 Christmas card featuring a woolly mammoth, by Charles R. Knight
  • The Turkoman Revolt began.[78]
  • Fifteen minutes after U.S. President William Howard Taft was driven down a street during his visit to Panama, a dynamite blast wrecked the street in Colón. No group claimed responsibility, but one report noted that "it is generally believed that the act was committed with a view to taking the life of the president and that the plot only failed because of some miscalculation in the arrangements."[79]
  • The first pro-independence organization in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the Indische Partij, was founded by Ernest Douwes Dekker, an "Indo" with "a Dutch father and a German-Javanese mother", and Indonesian physicians Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo and Soewardi Soerjaningrat.[80]
  • After a vote of censure by the Peruvian Senate, Elías Malpartida resigned as Prime Minister of Peru.[4]
  • Margaret Hatch, 40, a nationally known vaudeville actress, suffered a heart attack on stage while performing at a theater in Stamford, Connecticut, and died minutes later.[81]

December 26, 1912 (Thursday)

December 27, 1912 (Friday)

  • George Washington Donaghey, outgoing Governor of Arkansas, "accomplished through executive action what forty years of protests and duplicitous legislation had failed to do"[88] toward ending the practice of convict leasing in his state. Although Donaghey had not been able to persuade the state legislature to ban the system of the state prisons selling the use of inmates to private companies as unpaid workers, he had lobbied for the early parole of prisoners who had committed minor offenses, and in a single day, pardoned 360 other convicts of their crimes, freeing them prison and from slave labor. The legislature ended the practice the next year.[89]
  • Former French Prime Minister Alexandre Ribot began his run for office as President of France.[2]
  • Born: Conroy Maddox, British painter, member of the Birmingham Surrealists; in Ledbury, Herefordshire (d. 2005)

December 28, 1912 (Saturday)

December 29, 1912 (Sunday)

December 30, 1912 (Monday)

December 31, 1912 (Tuesday)

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