Editing 1912 (section)

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1912}}
* [[October 8]] &ndash; The [[First Balkan War]] begins: [[Kingdom of Montenegro|Montenegro]] declares war against the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[October 10]] &ndash; The Maternity Allowance Act goes into effect in Australia, but excludes minorities.
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[John Flammang Schrank]] attempts to assassinate [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in [[Milwaukee]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]n pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the second bombing with an airplane in history, at the railway station of Karaagac near [[Edirne]], against [[Ottoman Empire|Turkey]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Krupp]] engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer [[patent]] [[Austenite|austenitic]] [[stainless steel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nirosta.de/History.22.0.html?&L=1|title=ThyssenKrupp Nirosta: History|access-date=August 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902202906/http://www.nirosta.de/History.22.0.html?&L=1|archive-date=September 2, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] sign a treaty in Ouchy near Lausanne, ending the [[Italo-Turkish War]].
* [[October 18]]&ndash;[[October 21|21]] &ndash; [[First Balkan War]]: The Greek navy [[Battle of Lemnos (1912)|captures]] the island of [[Lemnos]] for use as a forward base against the [[Dardanelles]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Επίτομη Ιστορία των Βαλκανικών Πολέμων 1912-1913 | trans-title = Concise History of the Balkan Wars 1912–1913 | publisher = Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate | location = Athens | year = 1987 | pages=119–120}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] &ndash; First Balkan War: [[Battle of Kumanovo]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]]n forces defeat the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army in [[Vardar Macedonia]].
* [[October]]
** [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' character [[Tarzan]] first appears in ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'', in American [[pulp magazine]] ''[[The All-Story]]''.
** [[Sax Rohmer]]'s character [[Fu Manchu]] first appears in the first story of ''[[The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu]]'' in English pulp magazine ''[[The Story-Teller]]''.