Modern Era · North America · Culture
1912
Fenway Park opens
April 20, 1912
On the same day the Titanic sinking dominated the front pages, a small baseball park with an odd-angled left-field wall opened in Boston's Fens. It would still be in use a century later, the oldest park in Major League Baseball. American urban landscape had a new and stubborn minor landmark.
In context
Also in 1912 (4 other events on record)
- Titanic sinks on maiden voyage · Europe · Disaster
- First Balkan War breaks out · Europe · War
- Wegener proposes continental drift · Europe · Science
- Paul Ehrlich's magic bullet · Europe · Science
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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