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| 1 | 1613 |
- 21 Feb 1613—15 Mar 1917: The Romanov Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia, begins when 16 year old Mikhail Romanov is elected as Czar.Russiapedia Hillwood
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| 2 | 1837 |
- 20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.HistoricUK
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| 3 | 1878 |
- 11 Feb 1878: The first bicycle club in the U. S. is formed - the Boston Bicycle Club.1878 ASU
- 12 Feb 1878: Fred Thayer, the captain of the Harvard baseball team, receives a patent for his invention - the catcher's mask.MLB NBHoF
- 19 Feb 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.LoC Signals
- 21 Feb 1878: The first telephone book is produced in New Haven, Connecticut.OTB SIMag
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| 4 | 1879 |
- 18 Feb 1879: A design patent is granted for the Statue of Liberty.GIZMODO MIT
- 3 Mar 1879: The United States Geological Survey is established.USGS USCapitol
- 8 Apr 1879: Milk is sold for the first time in glass containers.W I R E D CI
- 10 May 1879: The Archaeological Institute of America is founded in Boston.GoogleBooks AIA
- 31 Dec 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates the incandescent light bulb to the public.LoC HFM
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| 5 | 1880 |
- 27 Jan 1880: Thomas Edison receives his patent for the incandescent light bulb.OurDocs USNA
- 3 Jun 1880: Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone.LoC Vice
- 2 Nov 1880: James Abram Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States of America. Garfield is wounded by an assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies on 19 Sep 1881.USEA USHouse
- 6 Nov 1880: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon, discovers the malaria parasite.CDC NIH
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| 6 | 1881 |
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| 7 | 1882 |
- 24 Mar 1882: Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, announces his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).CDC PBS
- 29 Mar 1882: The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.CTHist KoC
- 5 Jun 1882: The baggage claim check as it exists today is patented.WK CIPO
- 4 Sep 1882: The Edison Electric Illuminating Company at 257 Pearl Street in New York City begins providing eletricity to homes and businesses.JAIA ETHW
- 22 Dec 1882: For the first time, a Christmas tree is decorated using a string of electric lights.W I R E D DLG
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| 8 | 1883 |
- 19 Jan 1883: The first electrical transmission system utilizing overhead wires is put in place by Thomas Edison.fold3 USSI
- 24 May 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge opens to the public.LoC BWH
- 26 Aug 1883: Krakatoa begins erupting.ArcGIS NOAA
- 27 Aug 1883: Krakatoa blows its top, making the loudest noise ever heard, then collapses into a caldera.Nautilus NOAA
- 22 Oct 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York City.LoC NYPAP
- 18 Nov 1883: Canadian and U. S. railroads standardize on five time zones.W I R E D TCE
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| 9 | 1884 |
- 16 Jun 1884: The first amusement-park roller coaster ride in America opens at Coney Island.W I R E D WB
- 13 Oct 1884: The Greenwich meridian is officially adopted globally as the prime meridian, the imaginary north-south line where the longitude is 0 degrees.W I R E D MAA
- 14 Oct 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.PatentYogi Eastman
- 1 Nov 1884: Greenwich Mean Time is adopted universally when the International Meridian Conference meets in Washington, DC.GMT OFA
- 4 Nov 1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland is elected the 22nd president of the United States of America, 1885 - 1889.USEA
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| 10 | 1885 |
- 28 Feb 1885: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or AT&T, is chartered in New York.A-C GPM
- 26 Mar 1885: In Saskatchewan, Louis Riel leads the local Métis people and farmers for control of Fort Carlton beginning the North-West Resistance against Canada.CFP EoS
- 15 Apr 1885: Cree Uprising - 200 Anishinabe soldiers attack Fort Pitt, commanded by Francis Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, in western Saskatchewan.A-H CMA
- 17 Jun 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor on board the French Navy ship Isère.NPS IBTimes
- 30 Aug 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the first gas-engined motorcycle.W I R E D IH
- 1 Dec 1885: Dr Pepper® is served for the first time at a drugstore in Waco, Texas.WH BH
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| 11 | 1886 |
- 20 Mar 1886: Shops and hotels are lit up along Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts as a demonstration of AC electricity's capabilities. HMdb WM
- 4 May 1886: A peaceful labor demonstration erupts into violence and death at Haymarket Square in Chicago.ILHS PBS
- 8 May 1886: After John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola earlier in the year, the first sales are made at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta.Coca-Cola LoC
- 31 Aug 1886: The largest earthquake in South Carolina history occurs.EARTH USC
- 4 Sep 1886: Geronimo finally surrenders in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.AO ICT
- 28 Oct 1886: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated.SoL NPS
- 30 Nov 1886: The Westinghouse Electrical Company begins the first commercially successful transmission of A/C electricity.Google Books ETHW
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| 12 | 1887 |
- 2 Feb 1887: Groundhog Day! Six more weeks of winter if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow.GD 3RP
- 8 Feb 1887: The Dawes Act grants land to individual Native Americans.OurDocs PBS
- 27 Apr 1887: The first deliberate appendectomy in the U. S. is performed.GoogleBooks BMJ
- 27 May 1887: 34 Chinese gold miners are murdered on the Snake River.AM LT
- 8 Jun 1887: Herman Hollerith files for a patent for the punch card.WDN GooglePatents
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| 13 | 1888 |
- 27 Jan 1888: The National Geographic Society is incorporated.
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- 11 Mar 1888—14 Mar 1888: The Great Blizzard of March 1888 or the Great White Hurricane, hits the northeastern United States.HI LoC
- 22 Sep 1888: The National Geographic Society begins publishing its magazine. Biblio
- 30 Oct 1888: John J. Loud of Weymouth, Massachusetts receives the first patent for a ball-point pen.Pens tBPP
- 6 Nov 1888: Benjamin Harrison is elected the 23rd president of the United States of America, 1889 - 1893.USEA
- 9 Dec 1888: Statistician Herman Hollerith's computing device is installed at the U. S. War Department.RJ GoogleBooks
- 23 Dec 1888: Artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear.SIMag VGG
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| 14 | 1889 |
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| 15 | 1890 |
- 3 Jul 1890: Idaho becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 10 Jul 1890: Wyoming becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 6 Aug 1890: The first execution by electric chair is carried out.DPI ABA
- 23 Sep 1890: The first automatic fire alarm is patented.SD GooglePatents
- 11 Oct 1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.DAR FairPark
- 15 Dec 1890: Sitting Bull is killed during a confrontation with Indian police in Grand River, South Dakota.ICT SI
- 29 Dec 1890: On Wounded Knee Creek, near the Pine Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U. S. Army opens fire on an encampment of Big Foot's band of Miniconjou Sioux killing nearly 300 of the original 350 men, women, and children.LoC ICT
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| 16 | 1891 |
- 17 Aug 1891: U.S. Government rainmaking experiments begin in Texas.SIMag
- 21 Dec 1891: James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, introduces a new game to his class, basket ball.HoopHall MassMoments
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| 17 | 1892 |
- 1 Jan 1892: Ellis Island Immigration Station opens.EI LoC
- 15 Jan 1892: The first rules of basketball are published by Dr. James Naismith.USAB OCLC
- 19 Apr 1892: Charles Duryea becomes the first American to build and sell a gasoline-powered automobile.Hemmings DPL
- 28 May 1892: The Sierra Club is incorporated.SierraClub UCB
- 4 Aug 1892: Lizzie Borden kills her father and stepmother with a hatchet.CM SIMag
- 27 Sep 1892: Book matches receive a patent.PSU Hagley
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| 18 | 1893 |
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| 19 | 1894 |
- 14 Aug 1894: The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code is demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford.RSP NS
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| 20 | 1895 |
- 11 Jun 1895: The first U. S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile by a U. S. inventor was issued to Charles E. Duryea of the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. in Springfield.USNA HFM
- 27 Jun 1895: The first rail system in the U. S. using electric locomotives begins operating in Baltimore.HMdb A-R
- 26 Aug 1895: Water is diverted from Niagara Falls to begin the first large scale generation of electricity.SI BAH
- 8 Nov 1895: William Roentgen (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen) discovers X-rays.NobelPrize APS
- 28 Nov 1895: The first American automobile race takes place in Chicago.LoC THF
- 28 Dec 1895: The world's first commercial movie screening takes place in Paris. Variety
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| 21 | 1896 |
- 4 Jan 1896: Utah becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 29 Jan 1896: Émil H. Grubbe becomes the first to use radiation to treat a patient with recurrent breast cancer.ASCoPost RK
- 11 Aug 1896: Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, Connecticut receives a patent for the first on-and-off pull chain, electric light bulb socket.CTHist F-a-G
- 16 Aug 1896: Gold is discovered in Rabbit Creek in the Yukon. The Klondike Gold Rush is on when word reaches civilization almost a year later.UoW PBS
- 3 Nov 1896: William McKinley Jr. is elected the 25th president of the United States of America, 1897 - 1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York on 14 Sept 1901.USEA USSenate
- 12 Dec 1896: Marconi demonstrates the radio and 5 years later, on this same day, transmits the first trans-Atlantic radio signal.W I R E D
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| 22 | 1897 |
- 7 Mar 1897: The first bowl of flaked corn is served by Dr. John Kellogg at his sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.W I R E D F&W
- 12 Jun 1897: The Swiss Army Knife is patented.Victorinox KP
- 20 Aug 1897: World Mosquito Day marks the discovery of the malaria parasite.Mosquito EM
- 1 Sep 1897: The first subway system in America opens in Boston.Boston MassMoments
- 23 Nov 1897: John Lee Love of Fall River, Massachusetts receives a patent for a pencil sharpener.GooglePatents BI
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| 23 | 1898 |
- 15 Feb 1898: "Remember the Maine!" The U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana harbor after striking a mine. 260 sailors are lost leading to the Spanish-American War.SIMag LoC
- 17 Mar 1898: John P. Holland launches what will become the U. S. Navy's first modern submarine.NavHist USSNautilus
- 21 Apr 1898: The U. S. declares war on Spain.NPS MoAGI
- 25 Apr 1898—Jul 1902: Spanish-American War: War is formally declared between the United States and Spain.LoC PBS
- 30 May 1898: Superman beware, Krypton is discovered.JLab NIH
- 1 Jul 1898: Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders make the charge up San Juan Hill.PBS USArmy
- 30 Jul 1898: William Kellogg, understanding the value of the flaked cereal served at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invents Cornflakes.TiS WCSA
- 29 Aug 1898: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is incorporated.Goodyear OHC
- 26 Nov 1898—27 Nov 1898: New England experiences a a severe storm, The Portland Gale.HazeGray NOAA
- 18 Dec 1898: The first recorded land speed record is set when Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat travels 39.252 miles per hour in a Jeantaud, a French electric automobile.WoS AC
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| 24 | 1899 |
- 10 Jan 1899: David Misell receives a patent for his "electric device" - better known as the flashlight, which is still almost unchanged from its original design.FF USPTO
- 14 Mar 1899: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a United States patent for his rigid airship design.W I R E D AW
- 13 Sep 1899: The first U. S. traffic fatality occurs after Henry Bliss is struck by a cab in New York City.W I R E D SIMag
- 2 Nov 1899—7 Sep 1901: The Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreigners in China, occurs.TW GoogleBooks
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| 25 | 1900 |
- 14 Mar 1900: Gold becomes the official standard of United States currency.NYTimes POLITICO
- 11 Apr 1900: The U. S. Navy acquires its first modern submarine, the Holland, designed by Irish immigrant John P. Holland, propelled by gasoline while on the surface and by electricity when submerged.LoC DoD
- 2 Jul 1900: Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, with five passengers, flies the world's first untethered rigid airship, the LZ-1 near Lake Constance in Germany.Airships CoF
- 8 Sep 1900: A hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing over 6000 people.1900Storm NPS
- 15 Oct 1900: Boston Symphony Hall is opened.BSO NET
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| 26 | 1901 |
- 10 Jan 1901: The oil industry gets underway in Texas with the Spindletop well.TXAlmanac TSHA
- 22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.HistoricUK
- 21 May 1901: Connecticut enacts the first speed limit law for automobiles in the U. S..W I R E D CTHist
- 6 Sep 1901: U. S. President William McKinley is shot while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.LoC BN
- 14 Sep 1901: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president of the United States of America upon the death of President McKinley. He serves 1901 - 1909.LoC NCC
- 10 Dec 1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.NP NPP
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| 27 | 1902 |
- 4 Mar 1902: The American Automobile Association is established in Chicago.AAA C&R
- 6 Mar 1902: The permanent United States Census Bureau is established through a legislative act.Census USFR
- 20 Apr 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris.SN DTE
- 9 Jun 1902: The first fast food restaurant in the United States, the Automat, opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.W I R E D PE
- 10 Jun 1902: Americus F. Callahan of Chicago receives a patent for the window envelope.NDM GooglePatents
- 17 Jul 1902: Willis Carrier completes the design for the world's first successful air-conditioning system.WC W I R E D
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| 28 | 1903 |
- 18 Jan 1903: The first two-way transatlantic wireless communication occurs.CapeCod TRC
- 15 Feb 1903: The first Teddy bears go on sale.History.com Politico
- 23 Feb 1903: The Treaty of Cuba is signed by President Roosevelt giving the United States the right to Guantanamo Bay.Avalon USState
- 15 Jul 1903: The newly formed Ford Motor Company takes its first order.Ford HF
- 11 Aug 1903: The first patent in the United States for instant coffee is received by Chicago chemist Satori Kato.W I R E D GooglePatents
- 1 Oct 1903—13 Oct 1903: The first baseball World Series begins - the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates.MLB BA
- 17 Dec 1903: The Wright brothers fly the first gas-powered, human-controlled, heavier-than-air aircraft.NASA LoC
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| 29 | 1904 |
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| 30 | 1905 |
- 25 Jan 1905: The world's largest diamond is found in a South African mine.GIA IS
- 5 Aug 1905: Teddy Roosevelt gathers up the Russian and Japanese peace delegates in Oyster Bay, herds them aboard the yacht Mayflower, and heads off to Portsmouth.GoogleBooks GLIAH
- 5 Sep 1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth ends the Russo-Japanese War.MMN PPT
- 27 Sep 1905: Albert Einstein publishes the Theory of Relativity and makes famous the equation, E = mc2.Dummies EarthSky
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| 31 | 1906 |
- 18 Apr 1906: San Franciscans are shaken out of bed by the Great San Francisco Earthquake. The city is further destroyed by an uncontrolled inferno the rages for four days and nights.USGS USNA
- 21 Apr 1906: The Canada-Alaska border is established.GoogleBooks USNA
- 24 Sep 1906: President Roosevelt establishes the first National Monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming.NPS NPF
- 3 Nov 1906: The distress signal S.O.S. becomes the worldwide standard at the 2nd International Radiotelegraphic Convention.SIMag GA&C
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| 32 | 1907 |
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| 33 | 1908 |
- 30 Jun 1908: A large meteorite, presumed to be about 120 feet across, enters the atmosphere above Siberia and explodes, destroying about 80 million trees and lighting up the sky. NASA EarthSky
- 26 Jul 1908: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded.FBI USNA
- 3 Aug 1908: The first nearly complete skeleton of a Neanderthal is found.LS PNAS
- 16 Sep 1908: General Motors is founded by William "Billy" Durant.AH Forbes
- 6 Oct 1908: Henry S. Winzeler founds the Ohio Art Company, makers of the Etch-A-Sketch.GoogleNews
- 29 Dec 1908: A patent is granted for a 4-wheel automobile braking system.365DoM BH
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| 34 | 1909 |
- 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.W I R E D EarthSky
- 5 Feb 1909: The first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, is announced to the world by its inventor, Leo Baekeland, during a presentation to the American Chemical Society in New York City.PN NYTimes
- 12 Feb 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,or NAACP, is founded.NAACP LoC
- 7 Apr 1909: Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first non-native men to reach the North Pole.USNA Bowdoin
- 19 Aug 1909: The first automobile race is held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.IMS FSS
- 30 Aug 1909: Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institute discovers the Burgess Shales, one of the world's richest fossil troves.ESCONI tCE
- 3 Nov 1909: William Howard Taft is elected 27th president of the United States of America, 1909 - 1913.USEA
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| 35 | 1910 |
- 13 Jan 1910: The first public radio broadcast takes place with a live performance at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. SIMag WQXR
- 8 Feb 1910: The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.LoC BSA
- 28 Mar 1910: Engineer Henri Fabre takes off in the Canard, the first airplane to lift off from water under its own power.SI W I R E D
- 6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: George V. Ruler of England 1910-1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.HistoricUK
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| 36 | 1911 |
- 17 Feb 1911: The first electric "self-starter" is installed in a Cadillac.Hemmings EC
- 23 May 1911: The New York Public Library opens.NYPL LoC
- 30 May 1911: The first Indianapolis 500 is run.AH IN
- 16 Jun 1911: The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the precursor to IBM, is founded in New York.IBM CHM
- 4 Jul 1911: The highest temperature recorded in Vermont is 105°F at Vernon.NetState CW
- 4 Jul 1911: The highest temperature recorded in New Hampshire is 106°F at Nashua.NetState CW
- 10 Jul 1911: The highest temperature recorded in Maine is 105°F at North Bridgton.NetState RCS
- 24 Jul 1911: The ancient city of the Incas, Machu Picchu, is discovered by Hiram Bingham, a professor at Yale University.TiC Andina
- 25 Sep 1911: Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston.MLB
- 23 Oct 1911: An airplane is used for the first time in war.W I R E D A&SMag
- 14 Dec 1911: Raold Amundsen and four others are the first to reach the South Pole.SP SA
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| 37 | 1912 |
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| 38 | 1913 |
- 2 Feb 1913: Grand Central Terminal opens.GCT PBS
- 13 May 1913: Igor Sikorsky's Ilya Mourometz, the world's first 4-engine airplane, takes flight.AFMag SA
- 13 Aug 1913: The first stainless steel is produced.W I R E D QSeals
- 7 Oct 1913: Ford debuts the assembly line to speed up Model-T production.BI Hemmings
- 31 Oct 1913: The first transcontinental highway, the Lincoln Highway, is dedicated.DOT ILH
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| 39 | 1914 |
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| 40 | 1915 |
- 19 Jan 1915: The first air raid against civilian targets takes place when German Zeppelins attack Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn, England.1stWW WHO
- 27 Mar 1915: Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in her final quarantine at Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island, where she would remain for the rest of her life.PBS AH
- 7 May 1915: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat.1stWW LoC
- 17 Aug 1915: Charles F. Kettering, co-founder of DELCO in Dayton, Ohio, is issued a patent for his "engine-starting device".OAC AN
- 6 Sep 1915: The first military tank rolls off the assembly line.ACA USArmy
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| 41 | 1916 |
- 11 Feb 1916: Emma Goldman, an American anarchist and feminist, advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day and birth control, is arrested in New York City before giving a lecture on family planning.LoC PBS
- 15 Mar 1916: General John Pershing leads an invasion of Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.1stWW USArmy
- 24 Apr 1916—29 Apr 1916: Easter Rising - Ireland rises up against British rule and proclaims its independence.B B C IC
- 6 Jul 1916: "Uncle Sam" is created by James Montgomery Flagg as the cover of Leslie's Weekly.TIME DoD
- 15 Sep 1916: Tanks are introduced into battle for the first time.SA MotAGI
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| 42 | 1917 |
- 24 Feb 1917: The Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers United States western territory to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the U. S., is presented to Woodrow Wilson, effectively bringing America into the war.USNA OurDocs
- 18 May 1917: The U. S. passes the Selective Service Act.NAF USNA
- 15 Oct 1917: Mata Hari is executed for spying. PBS
- 6 Nov 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution begins (October 24th, old style calendar).IWM MSU
- 26 Nov 1917: The National Hockey League is founded.NHL
- 6 Dec 1917: The Mont-Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes in Halifax, Nova Scotia harbor after a collision, killing over 1800, injuring 9000 and entirely obliterating parts of the city.SIMag CanGeo
- 12 Dec 1917: Father Flanagan founds Boys Town.BoysTown
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| 43 | 1918 |
- 6 Jan 1918: The Bolsheviks take control of the Russian government.UoS UCA
- 9 Jan 1918: The last battle of the American Indian Wars occurs at the Battle of Bear Valley.RCH BYU
- Feb 1918—Dec 1920: The Spanish Flu pandemic kills at least 3% of the World's population.VLib npr
- 21 Feb 1918: The last known Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.Audubon USC
- 11 Mar 1918: At Fort Riley in Kansas, one of the first cases of what will become known as the Spanish Flu is recorded.WHO ACEP
- 12 Mar 1918: Moscow becomes the capital of the Soviet state of Russia.BYPLib TASS
- 19 Mar 1918: Time Zones and Daylight Savings Time are established by the Standard Time Act.POLITICO USDoD
- 21 Apr 1918: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, is shot down and killed in the skies over the Somme River in France.PBS CoF
- 16 May 1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed curtailing the free speech rights of U. S. citizens during time of war.ZEP MTSU
- 27 Aug 1918: U. S. Army forces trade shots with Mexican troops and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.BYU Tucson
- 26 Sep 1918—1 Oct 1918: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins.1stWW USArmy
- 29 Sep 1918: Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line.NCDCR AWM
- 8 Oct 1918: Acting Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 Germans and takes 132 of them as prisoners in the Battle of the Argonne.GWPDA SgtYork
- 7 Nov 1918: Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid-propellant rockets at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the forerunners to the bazooka.ESA AFHF
- 11 Nov 1918: Germany signs the Armistice.GHDI LoC
- 27 Dec 1918: Greater Poland Uprising - Poles begin their push for independence from Prussian control in the city of Poznań, which quickly spreads.PolandIn PC
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| 44 | 1919 |
- 15 Jan 1919: A tank of molasses ruptures in Boston's North End killing 21 people - the Great Molasses Flood.MassMoments SIMag
- 16 Jan 1919: The eighteenth amendment is ratified, Prohibition in the United States begins.LoC NCC
- 5 Feb 1919: Hollywood stars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, along with director D. W. Griffith, get together to form United Artists.CSL WHP
- 8 May 1919—27 May 1919: The Navy's NC-4 flying boat makes the first successful transatlantic flight.SI A&SMag
- 4 Jun 1919: The 19th Amendment is passed by Congress giving women the right to vote.OurDocs ZEP
- 28 Jun 1919: World War I ends.WW1.net USNavy
- 16 Sep 1919: The American Legion is issued a federal charter by the U. S. Congress.AL ALP224
- 2 Oct 1919: U. S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke that will leave him incapacitated until the end of his presidency.PBS JNS
- 17 Oct 1919: Radio Corporation of America, better known as RCA, is incorporated.LoVA VTInc
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1878 - 1919 (40 years)