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.
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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.......................