Events Date 1912 April | History by KabAstro

Titanic Undergoes Trials

Apr 2 RMS Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power

Apr 2 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China
Apr 4 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields in Siberia
Apr 4 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
Apr 8 Steamers collide on the Nile, drowning 200
Apr 9 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
Apr 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage
Apr 11 Cornerstone of Technion laid in Haifa, Palestine
Apr 11 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY
Apr 11 The UK Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons; Protestants in Ulster resist
Apr 13 Royal Flying Corps forms (later Royal Air Force)

Apr 14 RMS Titanic, the world's largest ocean liner, hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland, sinks in the early hours of April 15

Apr 15 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

Apr 16 Harriet Quimby becomes the 1st female pilot to fly across English Channel

Apr 17 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")

Apr 18 Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City
Apr 18 Tripolitan War: in continuing hostilities, Turkey closes the Dardanelles Straits after an Italian naval bombardment of the coastline
Apr 20 Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
Apr 20 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
Apr 26 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
Apr 27 Relief laws in Netherlands replace those of 1854
Apr 29 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)