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| North America:The twenty first Democratic national convention meets in Baltimore to nominate Woodrow Wilson.
The fifteenth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate William H. Taft, after a tough battle between Taft and former president Teddy Roosevelt. |
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January 1912
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February 1912
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March 1912
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April 1912
On April 10, 1912 according to the Daily Picayune, aerial mail service came to New Orleans. George Mestach took 91 minutes to fly from New Orleans} City Park Racetrack to the LSU athletic field in Baton Rouge and he did it with one eye closed since the glass on one side of his goggles broke shortly after takeoff. He only got lost once over Lutcher. |
May 1912
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June 1912
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July 1912
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August 1912
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September 1912
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October 1912
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November 1912
Luther Egbert Hall becomes Governor of Louisiana. Murphy James Foster is defeated for re-election to the U. S. Senate by Congressman Joseph Ransdell of Lake Providence. |
December 1912
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| Francis T. Nicholls dies January 4, 1912. | Harold Ross, epitome of the tramp reporter works for the New Orleans Item and looks like an unmade bed. He will go on to found the New Yorker Magazine. |
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