page_title: March 1912
section_title: March 22, 1912 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1912 / March 22, 1912 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1912:
context_section_description: Thomas Mackenzie was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand by members of the Liberal-Labour Party, which controlled the Parliament, winning 72-9.  The incumbent Premier, Sir Joseph Ward, deferred his resignation until Mackenzie could select a Cabinet.
  Guy Bowman, publisher of the London newspaper Syndicalist, was sentenced to 9 1/2 years of hard labor on charges of inciting a mutiny.
  The French Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence approving the nation's policies in Morocco.
  Women suffragettes in China occupied the National Assembly building in Nanjing.
  Born: Karl Malden, American actor, known his lead role in the television crime series The Streets of San Francisco and film roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Patton, recipient for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for On the Waterfront, as Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago (d. 2009)
  Died: Henry H. Bingham, 70, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania since 1879, American Civil War veteran, and Medal of Honor recipient.  Nicknamed "The Father of the House", he was honored in 1885 by having Bingham County, Idaho, named in his honor. (b. 1841)
caption: Joseph Ward
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