1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. If you understand that sentence, you qualify for an EU pasport. Or maybe a trip to Kolkata.
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1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. If you understand that sentence, you qualify for an EU pasport. Or maybe a trip to Kolkata.
1927- the great mississippi flood.
that, and my grandpop was born. :)
1926
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
May 18 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach. (In a shocking scandal, she is discovered later, and claims kidnapping, later proven to be false, she was with a lover.)
October 31 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured
December 3 - Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found in Harrogate hotel
1925 - Bennito Mussolini gains dictatorial control over all of Italy. Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf and F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby (one of my favorite books). John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1924
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
February 8 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch. However he was only in jail for nine months.
June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. (So kind of him to declare them citizens of what was once their own country!)
June 8 - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers were never seen alive again (Note the word alive. The bodies were found but for an unexplained reason, their camera was missing. This was the one piece of evidence that would have proved whether or not they made it to the peak. Hummmm.)
November 19 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
1923
March 9 - Vladimir Len suffers third stroke (unfortunately, he didn't die...)
1922 - February 2
Ulysses by James Joyce is published in Paris
1921
June 23 - Emir Faisal crowned King of Iraq
August 31 - official end of the Great War
Nov 21 - Afghan treaty signed
Dec 23 - Mr Newman makes break of 1274 at billiards.
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1920
the year prohibition went into effect.
1919 - Communists take control of Berlin for seven days. Arthur Eddington tests and confirms Albert Einstein's theory of general realtivity. The Treaty of Versailles is signed ending WWI. Health officials declare the Spanish Flu pandemic over.
1918
A Finnish civil war happened.
Some German troops moved around.
A trainwreck in Tennessee kills 101 people.
The Boston Red Sox played some baseball.
Russian Tsar and his family are executed.
Austria repuclicizes.
1917 - Mata Hari is arested for spying. The Russian Revolution begins. The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded. Two freighters colide in Halifax Harbour causing a huge explosion that kills nearly 2000 people (my great grandmother, fortunately for the existance of this post, is not among them), injurs 9000 and destroys part of the city.
1916 - Battle of the Somme, 60,000 Allied troops killed on first day - Thinking that probably aint correct, but its all I can remember from my history class currently (about 10 yrs ago....probably should've paid attention)
1915 - Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. Typhoid Mary is isolated. Einstein fromulates the theory of General Relativity.
1914
January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
June 28 - Serbian terrorist Gavrilo Princip assassinates and kills Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie
July 11 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox
July 28 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia.
August 2 - German troops occupy Luxembourg.
August 2 - Secret treaty between Turkey and Germany to secure Turkish neutrality
August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.
August 4 - German troops invade neutral Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany after the latter fails to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality.
August 5 - USA and Panama sign the Panama Canal Treaty
August 8 - German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba for high treason.
August 15 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
August 15 - Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Alvaro Obregon enter Mexico City
August 17-September 2 - World War I: Battle of Tannenberg
August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany.
August 26-27 - The Battle of Le Cateau.
August 28 - The Battle of Heligoland - British cruisers under admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.
December 24 - World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce.
1913>>>>>>>>!
1912 - April 14
The Titanic sinks
1911
January 3 - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End.
March 24 - Denmark abolishes death penalty and flogging
April 30 - Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine
September 20 - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton, England.
December 14 - Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
1910
May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship.
November 23 - Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
December 16 - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.
1909 - November 11
US Navy founds navy base in Pearl Harbor
1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole. Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England. Really. The University of Alberta is founded just outside of Edmonton (which quickly expands to encompass it).
1907
January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator.
July 6 - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
(I thought the word notice there was priceless!)
October 24 - A major American financial crisis was averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers created a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange leading to the bank panic of 1907.
November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1906
January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale).
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 18 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000. 225,000-300,000 left homeless. $350 million in damages. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
September 18 - Typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
December 26 - The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
1905
January 2 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur, China; an event which shocked the world.
January 22 (January 9 on the Julian calandard is use at the time) - Bloody Sunday massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.
April - Albert Einstein works on the special theory of relativity as well as the theory of Brownian motion
September 5 - Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed - In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia. In the agreement, Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin and port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan.
October 30 - Tsar Nicholas II is forced to grant Russia's first constitution, conceding a national assembly (Duma) with limited powers.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer banned from Brooklyn Public Library for "bad example" (Censorship has been around a long time!) :rolleyes:
1904.......................
1903
January 19 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
March 14 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
July 1-19 - First Tour de France – Maurice Garin wins
November 18 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
December 17 - Orville Wright flies aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in first documented successful controlled powered heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.
*1901*
March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world
December 10 - Marie Curie receives doctorate. The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death
Oops sorry, I missed 1902! I'm bad.
1904..................................
1905!........
:lol:,Tucs!
What's with the repeats? A time machine?
1900
January 29 - The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams. (Take me out to the ball game ....)
February 11 - Second Boer War: Colonel Hannay begins invasion of Orange Free State with march from Orange River to Ramdam
March 24 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
April 14 - Paris World Exhibition opens
May 17 - Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill 60 Chinese Christians
June 1 - Carrie Nation demolishes 25 saloons in Medicine Lodge
July 2 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany
August 14 - An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
September 8 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people
October - The Norwegian inventor Johann Vaaler demands a patent for his invention, the paperclip
November 3 - the first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.
December 18 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia opened for traffic.
1989..........
1898 hmm.. I googeld it, and the most important thing was the creation of pepsi cola!! Since this is a literature-forum, there was something about an articel by Emile Zola...
1897- The Birth of American Writer (One of Virgil's favorite) William Faulkner
1896
Jan 1: Jameson raid fails.
May 1: Shah of Persia assassinated
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1895 - December 28
Auguste and Louis Lumiere display their first moving picture film
1894 - New Zealand becomes the first country to pass a minimum wage law. Coxey's Army marches to Washington D.C. to protest unemployment. 12, 000 New York City taylors and 3, 000 Illinois auto-plant workers stirke independantly for better working conditions. Martial Bourdin and Jean Pauwels attempt to strike a blow for the same by bombing the Grenwich Observatory and the Madeline Church is Paris, respectively. Both are unscucessful. Bourdin is arrested and Pauwels dies in the attempt.
Interesting year for labour.
1893 - February 21
Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents
1892 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. Sport never recovers. The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered.
1891
The Year At a Glance!
January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany
January 20 - Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii
January 31 - The Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
February 14 - In the FA cup Quarter Final, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An Indirect free kick is awarded, since the Penalty kick was proposed that year but not implemented. This event probably changed public opinion on the penalty kick, which was seen as 'an Irishman's motion' before. (See William McCrum.)
March 3 - The International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed by the 51st Congress of the United States of America
March 9 - 12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sink
March 14 - In New Orleans, lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches eleven Italians arrested but found innocent for the murder of Police Chief David Hennessey.
March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France.
May 5 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 11 - Otsu Scandal
May 15 - Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" resulting in the creation of many Christian Democrat Parties throughout Europe.
May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
June 21 - First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.
October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors
October 27 - An 8.0 earthquake strikes the village of Utsuzumi in rural Gifu, Japan, killing over 7,000 across the region and creating a 3-meter-tall surface fault that is still visible today
December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio