Timeline July 1912

Events in July 1912 6

• 1867 – 1912 Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito) Reign 1867–1912 — Japan becomes a modern power Emperor Meiji reigned as Japan transformed from a feudal state under the shogunate into a major imperial power. The Meiji era saw the 1889 constitution, rapid industrialisation, and military victories over China (1895) and Russia (1905) that announced Japan's arrival on the world stage.
• 1875 – 1912 Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) Died 1 July 1912, aged 37 Harriet Quimby was the first woman to earn a pilot's certificate in the United States and the first to fly across the English Channel. She died when she was thrown from her airplane during an air meet near Boston.
• 1912 1912 Summer Olympics V Olympiad - Stockholm First Games to feature electric timing. Winner: USA.
• 1912 Wimbledon 1912 Men: Anthony Wilding · Women: Ethel Thomson Larcombe
• 1912 Woody Guthrie born in Okemah, Oklahoma Woodrow Wilson Guthrie Named after the newly nominated Woodrow Wilson.
• 1912 – 2006 Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Died 16 November 2006, aged 94 Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and leading advocate of free-market monetarism, died of heart failure in San Francisco. His ideas shaped economic policy under Reagan, Thatcher and beyond. He remains one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.