the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral(pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s?
after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay(pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
4th August - The First World War broke out. Albert Tatlock and his friends Dinky Low and Clarrie Ross joined the Lancashire Fusiliers as soon as war was declared, trained at Bury and left in late 1915 for France where Clarrie was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
25th October - After the outbreak of the First World War, Cedric and Lottie Thwaite of the Corner Shop were attacked and injured by their neighbours because Lottie was German.
President Lecomte of Haiti is murdered by agents of Tancred Auguste. Auguste later moves Lecomte's body to the Presidential Palace and blows the building up, hoping to make it look as if Lecomte perished in the explosion. Auguste then seizes power as president, but is himself soon assassinated. (NA: White Darkness)
10 April - The ocean liner RMS Titanic sets sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England. The Daniels family, following a warning delivered by a mysterious friend known only as the Doctor, cancel their plans to embark on the ship. A photograph of the Daniels and the Doctor later comes into Clive Finch's posession. (DW: Rose) The Ninth Doctor later remarks that he was on board the Titanic, but it's not known if he's referring to the events captured in Clive's photograph, the incident involving the Seventh Doctor (described below) or another event.
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