Question:
What other important dates are on April 14, 1912 or close before apart from the Titanic sink age?
Hannah
2009-05-07 17:07:08 UTC
I'm doing a L.A. project on the Titanic and one of the requirements is to use info from the media work, which is important happens on or before April 14, 1912. I haven't found anything but if you can, please post some minor happenings (a baseball team lost a match, etc.)
Three answers:
Muinghan Life During Wartime
2009-05-07 17:15:56 UTC
Okay here is the ENTIRE news from march 1st 1912 to April 10th ..... the next new heading would be TITANIC SINKS on April 14th.



March 1 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.

March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.

March 7

Roald Amundsen announces his success in reaching the South Pole.

French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours.

March 12 – The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded.

March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."

March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.

March 30 – France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.



April 11 – Titanic arrives at Queenstown, Ireland (today known as Cobh) picking up her final complement of passengers before steaming westward for New York.



April 10 – The British ocean liner RMS Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage for New York City.



After the 14th Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. & its Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, on the 16th & 20th





Go to this site below;

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/RegistrationLockdown.aspx?ctl=RLD2&returnurl=%2fSearchResultsV3.aspx



You can join for free, it will show you newspapers from archives, there was over 200,000 for the date 14 April 1912
2016-04-09 04:08:01 UTC
It hit an Iceberg about, 23:40 pm, on Sunday 14Th April 1912 and took about 2 hours and 40 minutes to fully sink about 02:20 am on Mayday 15Th of April 1912, a few Hundred miles off the, South east of The Newfoundlands...
2009-05-07 17:12:16 UTC
April 1912

The RMS Titanic sinking on April 15, 1912



* April 10 – The British ocean liner RMS Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage for New York City.

* April 11 – Titanic arrives at Queenstown, Ireland (today known as Cobh) picking up her final complement of passengers before steaming westward for New York.

* April 14 – Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean at 11:40 pm. She will sink at 2:20 am the following morning, taking with her the lives of more than 1,500.

* April 16

o Harriet Quimby becomes first woman to fly across the English Channel.

o The Royal Ontario Museum is established in Toronto, Ontario.

* April 17 – A solar eclipse is seen across Europe.

* April 18 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrives in New York with Titanic's 706 survivors.

* April 19 – The United States Senate initiates an official inquiry into the Titanic disaster, hastily issuing subpoenas for White Star personnel before they can return to the United Kingdom.

* April 20

o Tiger Stadium opens in Detroit.

o Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, opens.

* April 30 – The cable ship CS Mackay-Bennett arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia carrying the bodies of 306 victims of the Titanic disaster recovered from the North Atlantic.


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