Timeline January 1912

Events in January 1912 9

• 1912 Australian Open 1912 Men: James Cecil Parke
• 1912 – 1988 Kim Philby (1912-1988) Died 11 May 1988, aged 76 Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer who spied for the Soviet Union for decades as part of the Cambridge Five spy ring. He defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 after his cover was compromised. He died in Moscow, where he had lived in exile.
• 1912 Republic of China proclaimed Sun Yat-sen ends 2,000 years of imperial rule On 1 January 1912, Sun Yat-sen was inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of China, ending 2,133 years of imperial rule. The last Qing emperor, six-year-old Puyi, abdicated on 12 February 1912. The republic was almost immediately undermined by warlordism and the struggle between the Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), eventually leading to civil war.
• 1912 New Mexico admitted as a U.S. state Becomes the 47th state of the Union New Mexico is admitted to the United States as the 47th state on 6 January 1912, after more than 60 years as a U.S. territory. Its admission, along with Arizona's weeks later, completes the contiguous 48 states outside of Alaska and Hawaii.
• 1912 – 1992 Jose Ferrer (1912-1992) Died 26 January 1992, aged 80 Jose Ferrer was a Puerto Rican-American actor and director who won an Academy Award for his role in "Cyrano de Bergerac," becoming the first Hispanic actor to win an Oscar. He had a long career on Broadway and in Hollywood spanning five decades. He also directed several stage and film productions.
• 1912 Lawrence textile strike Bread and Roses strike over wage cuts Immigrant mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, strike after employers cut wages in response to a new law shortening the work week. The strike, later known as the Bread and Roses strike, draws national attention to labor conditions and ends in March with wage increases for textile workers across New England.
• 1912 Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole Arrives five weeks after Amundsen Robert Falcon Scott and four companions of the Terra Nova Expedition reach the South Pole on 17 January, only to find that Roald Amundsen's Norwegian party had beaten them by five weeks. Demoralized, the group begins the 800-mile return march to their base camp. All five men die before reaching safety.
• 1912 International Opium Convention signed First global drug-control treaty Representatives of thirteen nations sign the International Opium Convention at The Hague on 23 January 1912, agreeing to suppress the manufacture, sale, and use of opium, morphine, and cocaine. It becomes the basis for subsequent international drug-control treaties.
• 1912 – 1956 Jackson Pollock Abstract Expressionism · USA Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and pioneer of Abstract Expressionism whose drip technique revolutionised painting. He died in a car crash at 44, defining the archetype of the tortured American artist.