US and World History -- Year In Context
(In large part, dates are from  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/dates)

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1910

21 04 1910 Mark Twain, author, died
11 05 1910 Glacier National Park in Montana was established
18 05 1910 Halley's Comet was seen from earth to move across the sun
27 08 1910 Mother Teresa, Nobel peace laureate is born
29 09 1910 Winslow Homer, American painter, died in Maine
14 11 1910 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship
27 11 1910 New York's Pennsylvania Station opened; at that time, the world's largest railway terminal
03 12 1910 First neon light display, Paris

1911

?? ?? 1911 First transcontinental flight takes 82 hours, over nearly 2 months
18 01 1911 Eugene B. Ely makes the first landing of an aircraft on a ship when he lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor
31 01 1911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal
07 03 1911 coin vended locker patented
25 03 1911 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
21 04 1911 The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris
08 05 1911 England and China sign an agreement that opium should be used as their main trading commodity
30 05 1911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for 1st time
22 06 1911 Coronation of George V in England
22 08 1911 It was announced that the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre sometime the night before. It turned up in Italy two years later
10 10 1911 the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown in China
29 10 1911 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, died (Sargent painted him in 1909)
07 12 1911 Pigtails are abolished and calendar reformed by edict in China
14 12 1911 Roald Amundson was the first to reach the South Pole just 35 days ahead of Captain Scott of England

?? ?? 1912 Garrett Morgan of Cleveland invents the gas mask
03 01 1912 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the  Exposition without charge
06 01 1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state
18 01 1912 English explorer Robert F. Scott reaches the South Pole only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them
14 02 1912 Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, becomes the 48th state
10 04 1912 The luxury Liner RMS Titanic set sail on its ill-fated maiden voyage
14 04 1912 The RMS Titanic hits iceberg and begins to sink, eventually killing 1503 people of the 2224 aboard
15 04 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM
05 05 1912 The first issue of Soviet Communist Party paper Pravda was published
30 05 1912 U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua
04 06 1912 First minimum wage law
05 06 1912 US Marines arrive in Cuba
15 07 1912 National Health Insurance Act comes into force in Britain
27 08 1912 "Tarzan of the Apes" published
12 11 1912 The bodies of Captain Scott and his companions are found after their tragic attempt to return from the South Pole

1913

?? ?? 1913 16th Amendment establishes income tax
?? ?? 1913 Harriet Tubman, heroine of underground railroad, died; buried in Ohio
16 01 1913 G. H. Hardy receives the famous Ramanujan letter
17 02 1913 Armory Show is held in New York City, a mammoth exhibition of European  Modernism
23 02 1913 Sixteenth amendment enacted as Wyoming becomes 36th state to approve it, creating federal income tax
15 03 1913 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st Presidential Press Conference
31 03 1913 John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan, American banker and financier, died
08 04 1913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
20 05 1913 the digging was finished for the Panama Canal
26 05 1913 Peter Cushing, actor
31 05 1913 The last concrete was poured on the locks at the Panama Canal
31 05 1913 the 17th amendment, senatorial elections, proclaimed
10 09 1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
03 10 1913 Federal Income Tax was signed into law (at 1%)
17 11 1913 Panama Canal opens for use

1914

?? ?? 1914  President Wilson declares neutrality
14 01 1914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars
16 05 1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
28 06 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia World War I begins in Europe
30 06 1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, in campaign for Indian equal rights in South Africa
28 07 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
29 07 1914 Transcontinental telephone service, begins with a call New York to San Francisco
03 08 1914 War declared on France by Germany
04 08 1914 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I
05 08 1914 The first traffic light was installed in Cleveland, Ohio
08 08 1914 Montenegro declares war on Germany
15 08 1914 the first ship to cross through the Panama Canal enters the Pacific
20 08 1914 The Germans occupy Brussels, Belgium
23 08 1914 Japan declares war on Germany
29 08 1914 'Arizonan' was the 1st vessel to arrive in SF via the Panama Canal
05 09 1914 The first battle of the Marne began in World War I
03 10 1914 A national flag day was held for the Belgian Relief Fund in England (this was probably the world's first flag day)
27 10 1914 Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh romantic poet, was born
20 11 1914 Photograph was first required on US passports

1915

?? ?? 1915 Marcel Duchamp, whose Nude Descending a Staircase created an enormous stir at the Armory Show, settles in New York, becomes leader of American Dada movement
12 01 1915 House defeats women's suffrage proposal
28 01 1915 The Coast Guard was founded
30 01 1915 First German submarine attack without warning occurs off the French Coast
20 02 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
22 04 1915 poison gas was used by the Germans for the first time in World War I
07 05 1915 Lusitania was sunk by German torpedo, 1198 dead
05 06 1915 Danish women get the vote
15 06 1915 Native Americans made US citizens
21 09 1915 Stonehenge was auctioned off to C. H. E. Chubb, of Salisbury for 6,600 pounds
12 10 1915 Edith Cavell, English nurse, was executed by Germans in occupied Belgium during World War I
04 12 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens

1916

?? ?? 1916 General John "Blackjack" Pershing chases Pancho Villa deep into Mexico
08 01 1916 Gallipoli evacuated by the British
24 01 1916 US Supreme Court rules income tax was unconstitutional
21 02 1916 Battle of Verdun begins, bloodiest battle of WWI, over a million casualties
09 03 1916 Pancho Villa invades U.S
24 04 1916 Irish nationalists in Dublin launch the Easter rebellion, which was put down by the British
31 05 1916 the battle of Jutland was fought
15 09 1916 tanks were used in battle for the first time, at Flers in the Somme Offensive, by the British Machine Gun Corps
16 10 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in N.Y
22 11 1916 Jack London, author, died
17 12 1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated

1917

?? ?? 1917 After scores of U-boat incidents over last 3 years, US enters WW I
?? ?? 1917 Russian Revolution; they enjoy brief democracy
17 01 1917 The US buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25M
30 01 1917 The first jazz record was cut by "The Original Dixieland Jazz Band"
08 03 1917 The beginning of the February Revolution in Russia. (It was February in the Old Style aka the Julian calendar.)
15 03 1917 riots and the abduction of Czar Nicholas II mark the beginning of the Russian revolution
02 04 1917 Woodrow Wilson calls for a declaration of war on Germany
06 04 1917 US declares war on Germany
16 04 1917 Lenin returns to Russia after ten years of exile
13 05 1917 Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, saw a vision of the Virgin Mary
26 05 1917 US troops arrive in France
16 06 1917 First Congress of Soviets
24 06 1917 Mutiny at Sebastopol by the Russian Black Sea Fleet
06 07 1917 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba
12 07 1917 Andrew Wyeth, artist and illustrator, was born
17 07 1917 the British royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor to avoid connections with Germany
19 07 1917 Heavy Zeppelin raids on Britain
14 08 1917 war declared on Germany and Austria by China
15 10 1917 Mata Hari died by firing squad outside Paris
02 11 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
03 11 1917 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents
06 11 1917 Bolsheviks overthrow moderate provisional government making Lenin dictator
07 11 1917 October revolution takes place in Russia, Lenin overthrows Kerensky
10 11 1917 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House
06 12 1917 Finland gains its independence
07 12 1917 Formal declaration of war on Austria-Hungary by U.S
18 12 1917 Prohibition Amendment passes
31 12 1917 Canadian prohibition

1918

16 02 1918 Lithuania proclaimed independence
21 03 1918 The second battle of the Somme begins with a German offensive
21 04 1918 The Red Baron, Baron Von Richthofen was shot down (perhaps by ground fire) as he flies low in pursuit of Lt. Wilford May's Sopwith Camel
11 11 1918
13 05 1918 The first U.S. airmail stamps were introduced
17 06 1918 Last German air raid on Britain in World War I
16 07 1918 Czar Nicholas II, family and servants are killed by Bolsheviks
19 07 1918 The worst train wreck in US history in Nashville, TN killing 101
15 08 1918 Diplomatic relations are cut off between US and USSR
01 11 1918 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations
11 11 1918 The Allies and the Germans sign Armistice ending World War I on 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month
04 12 1918 Woodrow Wilson leaves for Brest, France to become the first American president to visit a foreign country

1919

18 01 1919 The World War I peace conference opens in Versailles
29 01 1919 the 18th amendment, prohibition of liquor, was proclaimed
26 02 1919 Grand Canyon National Park established
28 04 1919 1st successful parachute jump was made
03 05 1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
06 06 1919 Finland declares war on the USSR
14 06 1919 1st direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic
21 06 1919 The Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow
28 06 1919 the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed
27 09 1919 Democratic National Committee voted to admit women
28 10 1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition
18 11 1919 ticker tape used for the first time in a parade as Prince of Wales visits the U.S
01 12 1919 Lady Astor was the first woman to be sworn into the British Parliament

updated 10/03/2003