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david · 29 May 2008, 11:25 am

1916

GSDAkatsuki · 12:04 pm

1917 (also know that one of you guys posted 1913 twice)

January
January 2 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
January 11 - Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ) Due to German sabotage, leading to the U.S. involvement in World War I.
January 19 - Silvertown explosion: a blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
January 22 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
January 25
The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million
Anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7000 people, 20000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, an outspoken foe of prostitution, 300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration explaining they had been forced into the practice by poverty. When Smith asked if they will take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laugh derisively, which loses them public sympathy. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter [1]
January 26 - The sea defences at the English village of Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable.
January 28 - The United States ends its search for Pancho Villa.
January 30 - Pershing's troops in Mexico begin to withdraw to USA. They reach Columbus, Ohio February 5
January 31 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
[edit]February
February 3 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 5 - The constitution of Mexico is adopted.
February 13 - Mata Hari is arrested for spying.
February 23 - First International Women's day (Russia)
February 24 - World War I: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom Walter H. Page is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico, if Mexico will declare war on the United States.

shorter history lesson this time.

david · 29 May 2008, 2:21 pm

1918, it was probably me XD

God Keitaro · 29 May 2008, 3:06 pm

1919

shinmeiryuuX · 29 May 2008, 4:01 pm

1920

Nebuchadnezzar · 29 May 2008, 5:50 pm

1921 - Something happened...

GSDAkatsuki · 29 May 2008, 6:28 pm

1922

January

January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes.
January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
January 8 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
January 12 - British government releases remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
January 15 - Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
January 22 - Pope Benedict XV dies.
January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved
[edit]February

Feb. 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.
February - Ring Magazine is first published.
February 1 - William Desmond Taylor was murdered.
February 2 - Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce is published in Paris on his fortieth birthday by Sylvia Beach.
February 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy
February 8
President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
Cheka becomes GPU, a section of NKVD
February 14 - Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
February 25 - Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.
February 27 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 28 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.

Feb. 28: Egypt independent.
[edit]March
March 1
Ice mass breaks the Oder dam in Breslau
The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition
March 15 - Egypt having gained nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only two years.
March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
March 23 - Queensland, Australia abolishes Legislative Council (Upper House).
[edit]April
April 7
Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
The first midair collision, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Compagnie des Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France
April 10 - The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convened to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
April 13 - State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women
April 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo marks rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
April 22 - Lambda Chapter of Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated was chartered. It is the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State.