What Happened on July 1, 1912

Famous Birthdays

Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal and President of Iraq (1968-79), born in Tikrit, Ottoman Empire (d. 1982)
David Brower, American environmentalist and president (Sierra Club), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2000)
Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (Vogue magazine) and manager (Lord & Taylor), born in El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma (d. 1989)

Born in 1912

Famous Deaths

Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)

American pioneering aviator, 1st woman in the US to receive a pilot certificate and to cross the English Channel, dies in a plane crash at 37 after her biplane unexpectedly pitched forward and threw her and her passenger to their deaths [1]