Timeline June 1912

Events in June 1912 5

• 1912 – 1951 Maria Montez (1912-1951) Dominican actress known as the Queen of Technicolor, star of Universal's Arabian Nights adventures.
• 1912 Maria Montez born in Barahona Maria Montez is born in Barahona.
• 1912 – 1998 Enoch Powell (1912-1998) Died 8 February 1998, aged 85 Enoch Powell, the British politician remembered chiefly for his 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech opposing mass immigration, died on 8 February 1998. He remained a divisive figure in British politics for the rest of his life.
• 1912 – 1954 Alan Turing The man who defined the machine Alan Turing answered a question in mathematical logic in 1936 and, in the course of answering it, invented the idea of a general-purpose computer. He spent the war at Bletchley Park breaking German naval Enigma, work that is credited with shortening it by years. He then built early computers, asked whether machines could think, and turned to the mathematics of how a tiger gets its stripes. In 1952 he was prosecuted for a consensual relationship with a man, chemically castrated as an alternative to prison, and stripped of his security clearance. He died two years later at forty-one.
• 1912 Alan Turing born in Maida Vale A father in the Indian Civil Service Alan Mathison Turing is born in London while his parents are on leave from India. He and his brother are largely raised by family friends in Hastings while their father continues his posting. The separation is unremarkable for his class and era and leaves him, by most accounts, self-contained from very early on.