- Dixie Cup is invented
- Life Savers Candy was created by Clarence Crane

- Motorized movie cameras were invented, replacing its hand-cranked predecessor

- New Mexico and Arizona became the 47th & 48th state

- Pitcher ‘Cy Young’, for whom the major baseball award is named, retired with 511 wins

- Nabisco had a new idea for a cookie, and named it the “Oreo”

- Girl Scouts of U.S.A. is founded

- The 5th Summer Olympics was held in Stockholm, Sweden

- Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from an airplane

- The average life expectancy was 47 years

- The average wage in 1912 was $1,022 a year

- The average car cost $941.00

- The Five leading causes of death were: 1- Pneumonia and influenza 2-Tuberculosis 3-Diarrhea

     4-Heart disease and 5-Stroke

- Two out of every 10 American adults couldn't read or write and only 6 % graduated from high school   

- The American flag had 45 stars.
- The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!

- Only 8 percent of homes had a telephone.
-Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins June 6th. It’s the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th    

    century.

-Arctic explorer Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica – Nov 12th

-On April 15th, the "unsinkable" ocean liner “Titanic” sinks on her maiden voyage after colliding with an      iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, over 1,500 drown.

-Cost of a first-class stamp – two cents

-Cost of sugar - .04 cents a pound / eggs – .14cents a dozen  / coffee - .15 cents a pound.

- Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
-There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.