Jan 19 The first German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die

Jan 21 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit

Jan 12 Congress establishes the Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S.

Jan 11 Colonel Jacob Ruppert &Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000

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

Jan 28 US Coast Guard created from Life Saving &Revenue Cutter services

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

Jan 17 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine

Jan 30 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania

Jan 17 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens

Jan 01 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled

Jan 18 With the European powers preoccupied with World War I, Japan secretly presents China with Twenty-one Demands for privileges.

Feb 26 Malancourt, Argonnen - first (German) flame-thrower

Feb 14 First Canadian Division arrives in France from England, and moves into Flanders.

Feb 20 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco

Feb 22 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war

Feb 18 Germany begins a blockade of England

Feb 23 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin

Feb 03 Turkish &German army reach Suez Canal

Feb 18 During World War 1, Germany blockades Britain with submarines

Feb 12 Lorne Greene broadcaster, actor, born on this day at Ottawa Ontario

Feb 07 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes German armies surrounded a Russian army

Feb 07 A wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received

Feb 21 World's Fair in San Francisco opens

Feb 12 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial

Feb 21 20th Russian Army corps surrenders

Feb 23 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law

Feb 19 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast

Feb 08 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles CA

Feb 12 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

Feb 04 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi Penitentiary

Feb 28 The birth of Sir Peter Medawar, English immunologist

Apr 24 Massacre of Armenians by Turks

Apr 06 SS Guernsey, went ashore on at Cap de la Hague Guernsey with a loss of seven crew while outward bound from Guernsey to Southampton.

Apr 17 M Wolf discovers asteroid #805 Hormuthia

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