page_title: July 1912
section_title: July 2, 1912 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: July 1912 / July 2, 1912 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: Woodrow Wilson (1912) English: President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Deutsch: Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von 1913 bis 1921, Friedensnobelpreisträger des Jahres 1919, aufgenommen am 2. Dezember 1912.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in July 1912:
context_section_description: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson received the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, after 46 ballots had been taken at the party convention. On the 45th ballot, with 730 votes needed to win, Wilson had 633, former House Speaker Champ Clark had 306, and Alabama Senator Oscar Underwood had 97. Underwood then withdrew his candidacy, putting the nomination within reach, and Clark followed suit. The final result was 990 votes for Wilson, 84 for Champ Clark, and 12 for Judson Harmon. With the Republican Party split between the followers of U.S. President William Howard Taft and former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the Democrats would win the U.S. Presidency for the first time since 1892.
  The airship Akron exploded in mid-air near Atlantic City, New Jersey, killing the five crew members on board including pioneer aerial photographer Melvin Vaniman.
  Born: Bill Mitchell, American automobile designer, best known iconic vehicle designs for Chevrolet including the Bel Air, the Stingray, and the Camaro, in Cleveland (d. 1988)
  Died:  Tom Richardson, English cricketer, fast bowler for the England cricket team from 1893 to 1898 (b. 1870)
caption: Governor Wilson
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