page_title: October 1912
section_title: October 16, 1912 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1912 / October 16, 1912 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Fred Snodgrass, baseball player CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 3941-7[P&amp;P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-22463
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1912:
context_section_description: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series, defeating the New York Giants, 3-2, at Boston. The series had been tied 3-3, and the deciding game was tied 1-1 after nine innings. The Giants had taken a 2-1 lead in the tenth, but then gave up two runs after the Giants' Fred Snodgrass dropped an easy fly ball, Christy Mathewson walked a batter, and Fred Merkle failed to catch a foul ball.
  Bulgarian pilot Radul Minkov and his observer, Prodan Toprakchiev, performed the first reconnaissance and second bombing from an airplane in history, throwing hand grenades from their Albatros F-2 biplane at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
  Russian explorer Georgy Brusilov and the 24 crewmen of the Svyataya Anna (St. Anna) became trapped in the Arctic ice after sailing into the Kara Sea. At the time, the ship was still close to Russia's Yamal Peninsula and the crew could have escaped to safety, but Brusilov made the decision to wait out the winter.
  A typhoon in the Philippines killed 1,000 people at Cebu.
  Mexican rebel forces under the command of General Félix Diaz captured Veracruz, Mexico.
  Montenegro captured Berane.
  Born: Maidie Norman, American actress, known for her film roles in The Well and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, in Villa Rica, Georgia (d. 1998)
caption: Snodgrass
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