Nov 09 a violent storm sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes

Nov 05 Louis III becomes King of Bavaria.

Nov 06 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa

Nov 05 The birth of Vivien Leigh, British actress

Nov 25 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House

Sep 06 The first aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P‚goud-France)

Sep 21 The first aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France

Sep 10 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway

Sep 22 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico

Sep 10 Cleveland Call &Post established

Sep 10 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia

Sep 03 The birth of Alan Ladd, American film actor

Sep 12 The birth of Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete

Jun 21 Tiny Broadwick becomes first woman to parachute from an airplane

Jun 29 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War

Jun 06 Rabbit Maranville, was thrown out trying to steal home 3 times

Jun 12 "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released

Jun 02 The first strike settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor-RR clerks

Jun 30 2nd Balkan War begins

Dec 01 The Ford Motor Company introduced the continuous moving assembly line on this day. Ford's new assembly line could produce a complete car every two-and-a-half minutes

Dec 29 First movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago

Dec 02 Archdiocese of Managua created

Dec 23 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law

Dec 18 The birth of Willy Brandt, German statesman

Dec 12 The "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered

Dec 01 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)

Dec 01 The First drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)

Dec 08 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco

Dec 21 The first crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World

Dec 01 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2 38)

Aug 27 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)

Aug 30 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)

Aug 16 The birth of Menachem Begin, Israeli statesman

Aug 20 First pilot to parachute from a French aircraft

Aug 13 Canadian Army troops called out at Nanaimo British Columbia to stop rioting.

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