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August 11 - Sodomy becomes legal in France.

August 12 - Sultan Abd Al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.

August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.

* August 28 - Rosamond Carr is born in South Orange, New Jersey

September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York, New York.

October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.

# October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

October 16

* Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.

The Boston Red Sox, assisted by a famous error, defeat the New York Giants in extra innings to win the 1912 World Series, in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.

November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.