May 07 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost

May 19 Lance Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF, becomes the first Australian to win a Victoria Cross in World War One for his action at Gallipoli, Turkey

May 19 Death on Gallipoli of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick of "Simpson and his donkey" fame

May 09 German &French fight the Battle of Artois

May 23 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WWI

Jan 26 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established

Jan 15 Japan claims economic control of China

Jan 13 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000

Jan 19 The Germans perform the first aerial bombing of Britain, from a pair of Zeppelin dirigibles during WWI.

Jan 12 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote

Jan 17 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens

Jan 25 Giordano, Sardou &Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in New York City NY

Jan 13 SS Roebuck, formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank.

Jan 27 US Marines occupy Haiti

Jan 27 US Marines occupy Haiti

Jan 28 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

Jan 30 German submarine attack on Le Havre

Jan 18 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die

Jan 06 In France, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry go into action in France

Jan 24 German-British sea battle at Doggersbank &Helgoland

Jan 18 The Germans perform the first aerial bombing of Britain, from a pair of Zeppelin dirigibles during WWI.

Jan 01 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled

Jan 25 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to San Francisco)

Jan 13 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles

Jan 19 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude

Jan 04 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops

Jan 28 The first US ship sunk in WWI, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

Jan 01 DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview

Jan 21 Jan 21, The first Kiwanis Club is chartered, in Detroit, Michigan.

Jan 04 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops

Jan 16 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific International Expo gold coin

Jan 19 German zeppelins bomb London for the first time in World War I

Jan 31 The first (German) poison gas attack, against Russians

Jan 17 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine

Jan 06 In France, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry go into action in France

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