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The following events occurred in July 1912: ==July 1, 1912 (Monday)== *The Woolworth Building in New York City became the world's tallest skyscraper, at 792 feet, with the driving in of the final rivet to its steel frame, and would be completed by April 1, 1913.〔Gail Fenske, ''The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York'' (University of Chicago Press, 2008) p186〕 *The French Chamber of Deputies voted 460-79 to approve the protectorate over Morocco.〔''The Britannica Year-Book 1913: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica] (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1913) pp xxx-xxxiii〕 *The first payroll deductions under the British unemployment insurance act were taken, with the first benefits to be paid on January 1, 1913.〔Keith Laybourn, ''Modern Britain Since 1906: A Reader'' (I.B.Tauris, 1999) p19〕 *The British Copyright Act 1911 went into effect.〔Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter and Garrett Breen, ''Intellectual Property Law'' (Cavendish Publishing, 2003) p4〕 *A new law went into effect in Egypt, making all ancient artifacts there property of the State. Dealers were required to have a license, items could not be exported without a permit, and any evasion of the law would be punishable by confiscation of the items.〔T. G. Wakeling, ''Forged Egyptian Antiquities'' (Coachwhip Publications, 2006) p8〕 *Russian ethnologist Shloyme Ansky, with the backing of philanthropist Goratsii Gintsburg (Horace Günzburg), launched the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition, that collected and preserved thousands of Jewish artifacts in Russia until the outbreak of World War One.〔S. Ansky, David G. Roskies and Golda Werman, ''The Dybbuk and Other Writings'' (Yale University Press, 2002) xviii〕 *Born: David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000); and Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989) *Died: Harriet Quimby, 37, the first American woman to gain a pilot's license, was killed, along with a passenger, William A.P. Willard, when her airplane suddenly pitched forward, throwing both people out of their seats. Quimby and Willard fell from an altitude of 1,000 feet, into five-foot deep waters in Dorchester Bay near Squantum, Massachusetts, where they had been participating in an airshow.〔("Miss Quimby Dies in Airship Fall" ), ''New York Times'', July 2, 1912〕 Although the cause of the accident was never identified, one theory is that Willard, much heavier than Quimby, caused the plane to pitch out of control when he shifted in his seat.〔Doris Weatherford, ''Women's Almanac'' (Greenwood Publishing, 2002) p168〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「July 1912」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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