May 12th 1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield.

Life was harder 100 years ago.

If you read the book of Otto L. Bettmann's 'The Good Old Days...They Were Terrible', life was harder and worse than it is now...it's just that we have different obsticales to get through.

What would there be to talk about? William Howard Taft became president 100 years ago this November? Automobiles still weren't mainstream? Things still largely resembled the 1800's? A more appropriate title would be "the 80 years ago thread", because the 1920's were really the first true decade of the 20th century - they were all about materialism, they occurred right after the US emerged a victor of a major international war, they were the first decade to have a pop culture, they saw the emergence of major cities and the introduction of profane and provocative novels, and they were the first years that "Black" music (Jazz, Rock n' Roll, Soul, Funk, Hip-hop) seeped into the American mainstream with Jazz. The 1900's and 1910's seemed very primitive by comparison.

Maybe this is why I'm only the second to post  ;)

May 23rd 1908 - Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington

May 26th 1908 - At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.

May 27th 1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din elected first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

May 30th 1908 - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane.

So Mankind can claim quite an achievment as Planet Earth 4 billion years in the making & mankind only needed 100 years to wreck it!

I know that in May 1908 James Stewart was born.  ;D A hundred years ago, he'd be 2 months old today.  :)

And it was just a waiting game until he made all the movies I loved:

Harvey,
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Vertigo
Rear Window
Bandelero!

Yippee!

Sorry, I just love Jimmy.  ;D

June 30th 1908 – A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, knocking over 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi).

SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.

July 6th 1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.

July 19th 1908 – Feyenoord Rotterdam, today one of the "big three" professional football teams in the Netherlands, was founded as the club Wilhelmina in a pub.

July 25th 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.

July 26th 1908 – Unable to use the services of U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators because of a federal law, U.S. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte established what is now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation to organize his own staff of special agents.

Well...I know that 1908 was the last time that the Chicago Cubs won a World Series. Being a big baseball fan, I should know that.

I sure hope they do it this year.

August 8th 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.

August 12th 1908 - First Model T Ford built.

August 14th 1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England.

August 17th 1908 - Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl.

Sep. 7th, 1908-my grandmother was born.



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September 16th 1908 - General Motors is founded.

September 17th 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.

September 22nd 1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.

September 26th 1908 - Ed Reulbach became the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

September 27th 1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit.

In the our Gregorian calendar September 28, 1908 was on a Monday

In the Hebrew calendar it was Tishri 3, 5669

In the Japanese Kyureki calendar, Nagatsuki 4, 1908

October 1st 1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.

October 3rd 1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.

November 22nd 1908 - The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

December 2nd 1908 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two

January 5th 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.

January 28th 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.

Febuary 12th 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, was founded to work on behalf of the rights of African Americans.

February 23rd 1909 – The Silver Dart was flown off the ice of Baddeck Bay, a sub-basin of Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island, making it the first controlled powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.

April 6th 1909 - Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole.

April 6th 1909 - Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole.


That's right!! I think they had claimed to become the first people to reach that location.

That's right!! I think they had claimed to become the first people to reach that location.


I read or saw a TV program that they really weren't "exactly" the first of their exposition to reach the north pole but it was their scouts or so called advance troubleshooting crew ahead of they main exposition to reach it first by a day and the very first was a Afro-American crewmember, but were given the honors because they originated the exposition...do you know for sure if I am right on this information?

I read or saw a TV program that they really weren't "exactly" the first of their exposition to reach the north pole but it was their scouts or so called advance troubleshooting crew ahead of they main exposition to reach it first by a day and the very first was a Afro-American crewmember, but were given the honors because they originated the exposition...do you know for sure if I am right on this information?

something like that. I said above that they'd claimed to be the first to get there, since it wasn't for sure. I suppose I could research it.

April 18th 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.

May 15, 1909 - actor James Mason was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England.

May 15, 1909 - actor James Mason was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England.


Just think, he was born 39 years before "Lolitta" was born.

Just think, he was born 39 years before "Lolitta" was born.

Lolitta...1948? I didn't know that.

Lolitta...1948? I didn't know that.


When that movie came out, us guys were about her age and she was HOT! looking and everyone wanted Lolitta and couldn't blame the old man for wanting her too, only today he'd be on the Megan's Law list of sex offenders. 

May 30th, 1909: legendary jazz musician Benny Goodman was born. He would die in 1986 at age 77.

June 27, 1909: In Springfield, Massachusetts, a riot broke out between the Turkish and Syrian communities, following an argument over a married Syrian woman. An estimated 400 people fought for more than an hour along Ferry Street before Springfield police quelled the violence. Said Burak, a leader in the Turkish community, died after being stabbed three times

July 25th 1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England.

December 4th 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

December 31st 1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.

I had no idea that that bridge was 100 years old already.

I had no idea that that bridge was 100 years old already.
Are they celebrating on the bridge today?

Are they celebrating on the bridge today?

I haven't heard anything in the news.

January 1st 1910 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear Admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.

January 13th 1910 - JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows" premieres in Dublin

January 19th 1910 - Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty

January 19th 1910 - National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress

January 19th 1910 - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for the Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910)

February 8, 1910: Boy Scouts Of America is established.

If I remember reading my family history, I think one pair of my great-grandparents got married at the end of June in 1910. Namely, the parents of my paternal grandfather (who was by far the youngest of four kids; now 80, he's the only one surviving).

July 4th 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States

July 4th 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States


Jim Jeffries declared: "I am going into this fight for the sole purpose of winning the title for whites."
Jack Johnson replied: "Great White Hope I don't beat your ass to a bloody pulp!
8)

August 22nd 1910 – Korea was annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.

August 29th 1910 – Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.

September 12th 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)

September 18th 1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.

October 1st 1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.

October 5th 1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .

October 11th 1910 – Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.

October 14th 1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.

October 23rd 1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight

October 23rd 1910 - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series

On Oct. 25, 1910, "America the Beautiful," with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, was first published.

Wow; I had no idea that the song was a full century old already. I thought it had been around long before that.

October 29th 1910 - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

November 1st 1910 - 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois

November 6th 1910 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

November 7th 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

November 8th 1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote

November 10th 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

November 12th 1910 - 1st movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

November 14th 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

November 19th 1910 - Ferenc Molnàrs "Tester," premieres in Budapest

November 20th 1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero

1910 – The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Bahia, and Deodoro mutinied in what became known as the Revolt of the Whip

1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.

1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest E. Sirrine.

1910 - Modern neon lighting was first seen publicly after installation by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

1910 - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics

1911 – Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.

1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill

1911 - Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000

1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated

1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.

1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law was founded, eventually graduating many of the leading Filipino political figures since then.

1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

1911 - Pandora becomes first 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east

1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.

1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.

1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

1911 – The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.

1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

1911 - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam

February 6, 1911: Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the U.S. (served 1981-89), was born in Tampico, Illinois. He lived to be 93 years old (passed away in June 2004 from Alzheimers Disease).

1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.

1911 - Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)

1911 – Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..

1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in New York NY

1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law

1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

1911 - L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay

1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.

1911 - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed

1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.

1911 - Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in NYC

1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).

1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.

1911 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

1911 - Portugal approves woman suffrage

1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.

1911 – Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero signed the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.

1911 - Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row

1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.

1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.

1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.

1911 – The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues.

1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".

August 6, 1911... Lucille Ball, an American actress and comedian probably best known as the star of the 1950's TV series "I Love Lucy", was born in Jamestown, New York. She passed away in April 1989, aged 77.

She was born half a year to the day after Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the U.S. (who left office just three months before Ball's death).

August 6th 1911, the former South African cricketer, Norman Gordon, who played in 5 Tests in the 1938–39 South African cricket season was born (and yesterday he celebrated his 100 birthday,

In the final Test Gordon took match figures of 1–256 and was not out in each innings, scoring 0 and 7. This match was the famous Timeless Test, which took 10 days and was eventually drawn by agreement. This was Gordon's final Test match. He is the only survivor of the Timeless Test, and the last living person to have played Test cricket before World War II.

1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.

1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.

1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

1911 - 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)

1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.

1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with british warship HMS Hawke.

1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.


Hard to believe that stadium is now a century old and still in use!

1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire

1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.

1911 – The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.

1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.

1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

1911 – The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.

1911 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

1911 – King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.

1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

1911 – "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, was first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
   

1911 – Sun Yat-sen was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President of the Republic of China.

1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.

1912 – The Republic of China is established.

1912 – The Republic of China is established.

Its first president was Sun Yat-sen.

1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.

1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift.

1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.

1912 – The African National Congress is founded.

1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.

1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

February 29, 1912: Serbia and Bulgaria secretly signed a treaty of alliance for a term of eight years, with each pledging to come to the defense of the other during war.

1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage, stopping first in Cherbourg, France, and then Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, the next day to pick up additional passengers before heading out into the open sea.

April 14th 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.

1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.

October 23rd 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.

October 24th 1912 – First Balkan War: Serbian forces defeated the Ottoman army at the Battle of Kumanovo in Vardar Macedonia.

October 26th 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.

November 8th 1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army accepted the surrender of the Ottoman garrison at Thessaloniki, one day before the Bulgarian Army arrived to do the same.

November 12th 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

December 18th 1912 – Amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announced the discovery of fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human, known as Piltdown Man, which later turned out to be a hoax.

December 19th 1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.

February 2nd 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.

February 2nd 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.



Happy 100th.

February 3rd 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

February 5th 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.

February 5th 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.

Interesting.

Btw, I happen to know that that day was Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent)...and February 5th is the earliest date that Ash Wednesday can fall.

February 20th 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.

March 6th 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.

March 12th 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)

March 12th 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia was officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)

I just came across a news item about that. :) Happy centennial to Canberra!!

I just came across a news item about that. :) Happy centennial to Canberra!!
Gibbo must be out celebrating today?

Gibbo must be out celebrating today?

And possibly our other members from Australia, such as Mooster?

And possibly our other members from Australia, such as Mooster?
That is Amanda...

...where is she now?

March 18th 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.

March 20th 1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

March 21st 1913 – Over 360 were killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.

   

March 22nd 1913 – Phan Xich Long (pictured), the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.

April 8th 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.

April 24th 1913 – The Woolworth Building opened in New York City as the tallest building in the world at the time.

May 3rd 1913 – Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.

May 14th 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

May 29th 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France provoking a riot.

May 30th 1913 – The Treaty of London was signed to deal with territorial adjustments arising out of the conclusion of the First Balkan War, declaring, among other things, an independent Albania.

June 4th 1913 – Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.

June 19th 1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.

July 10th 1913 – The air temperature in California's Death Valley (pictured) reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), the highest reading ever recorded.

July 10th 1913 – The air temperature in California's Death Valley (pictured) reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), the highest reading ever recorded.


and today in Death Valley 120! Wow that's hot! :o :P

Florian Illies and Charles Emmerson recently published books about 1913, surveying the world as if the Great War wasn't going to be as imaginable as it would turn out. As the Financial Times put it out, there was "Never such innocence again". http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/fe32800e-eecc-11e2-b8ec-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aBV2gQXW

Since Picasso was starting to revolutionize art, Henry Ford introducing conveyor belt production, Charlie Chaplin signing his first movie contract, and Louis Armstrong picking up the trumpet for the first time, I feel that 1913 was finally the moment where the "Edwardian Era" (basically a slightly more refined Victorian era) was finally giving way as new, distinctively 20th century art forms were taking place. There were even sci-fi writers believing that a transatlantic tunnel would be possible. Europe was still the leader, but with the US having 48 states, the culture was sure changing.

July 31st 1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.

October 23rd 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.

October 31st 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.

October 31st 1913 – The Indianapolis Street Car Strike and subsequent riot begins.

November 5th 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.

November 6th 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

November 9th 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

December 14th 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

December 15th 1913 – Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.

February 12th 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

February 26th 1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

February 28th 1914 – In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.

March 1st 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.

March 7th 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.

April 9th 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.

April 24th 1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar in the development of quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.

May 21st 1914 - Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota

May 29th 1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.

June 12th 1914 - The first edition of A.T. Robertson's monumental 'Grammar of the Greek New Testament' was released. Its 1400+ pages make it the largest systematic analysis of the original New Testament language ever published.

June 23rd 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.

July 4th 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.

July 21st 1914 – The Crown council of Romania decides for the country to remain neutral in World War I.

July 26th 1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.

July 28th 1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

August 1st 1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.

August 4th 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.

August 5th 1914 – World War I: The German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.

August 5th 1914 – World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz (1913) which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.

August 5th 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

August 15th 1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the latter's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.

August 15th 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.

August 17th 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

August 19th 1914 – The Ottoman-Bulgarian alliance is signed in Sofia.

August 4th 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.


'It'll all be over by Christmas...'

'It'll all be over by Christmas...'
...and "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time".

August 28th 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

August 28th 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur, Belgium.

August 30th 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg

September 5th 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began with French forces engaging the advancing German army at the Marne River near Paris.

December 14th 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

December 16th 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

January 12th 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.

January 12th 1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.]

January 12th 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.

A historical event for sure...

January 13th 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.

January 19th 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising

January 25th 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

January 26th 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.

January 28th 1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

January 31st 1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.

February 8th 1915 – D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

February 19th 1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.

1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.

1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

1915 – Ice Hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.

1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

April 25th 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.

1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire

1915 – Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation)

May 8th 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

May 22nd 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.

May 22nd 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction

May 23rd 1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.

June 5th 1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

June 9th 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

June 16th 1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.

June 29th 1915 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.

July 7th 1915 – World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.

July 7th 1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.

1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.

July 16th 1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.

July 16th 1915 – First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded.

July 24th 1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew, the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

July 25th 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

August 6th 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

August 15th 1915 – The New York World revealed that Germany had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.

August 17th 1915 – American Jew Leo Frank was lynched by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl.

August 17th 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).

November 25, 1915:

Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.

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November 25, 1915:

Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.

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Wasn't it E=MC 2? ???

Wasn't it E=MC 2? ???


The famous mass-energy equivalence, E = mc^2, comes from the theory of special relativity.  It was discovered 10 years earlier in 1905.

December 12, 1915: Frank Sinatra (American traditional-pop/jazz singer, actor, and producer) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He lived to be 82 years old (d. May 1998 from heart failure).

January 12th 1916 – Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.

January 17th 1916 - The Professional Golfers Association was formed in New York City.

January 18th 1916 – A 611-gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.

January 29th 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

February 3rd 1916 – The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.

February 11th 1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.

February 24th 1916 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.

February 25th 1916 – World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.

February 29th 1916 – Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.

February 29th 1916 – Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.

29 February 1916: American actress and singer Dinah Shore was born. She passed away in 1994, aged 78 (and had 19 birthdays altogether). :\'(

March 8th 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.

March 9th 1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.

March 11th 1916 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought".

March 15th 1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

March 16th 1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.