Apr 25 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli

Apr 18 M Wolf discovers asteroids #806 Gyldenia & #807 Ceraskia

Apr 23 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)

Apr 07 The birth of Billy Holiday, American jazz singer

Apr 21 The birth of Anthony Quinn, American actor

Apr 23 Lance-Cpl. Fredrick Fisher (Cdn. 13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at St.Julien Belgium

Apr 24 Lt. Edward Donald Bellew (Cdn. 7th Cdn Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium

Apr 05 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title

Apr 22 Firt military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I

Apr 24 Sgt-Major Frederick William Hall Cdn. (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium

Apr 25 Capt. Francis Alexander CAron Scrimger (Cdn. Army Medical Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium

Apr 30 Australia's first military pilot, Lieutenant Merz, is killed by Arabs after his Caudron plane is forced down by engine trouble over Mesopotamia during WWI.

Apr 25 Australian troops land on the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey

Apr 04 The birth of Muddy Waters, Chicago blues singer

Apr 05 French begin Wo‰vre-offensive

Nov 12 Britain annexes Gilbert &Ellice Islands

Nov 12 Haiti approves the treaty making it a U.S. protectorate.

Nov 09 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272

Sep 15 Tanks used for the first time, by the British in the Somme

Sep 21 Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for œ6,600

Sep 22 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its first class

Sep 16 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years

Sep 29 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta

Sep 09 German Zepplins bomb London

Sep 21 Stonehenge sold at auction for 6,600 pounds

Jun 27 100ø F (38ø C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)

Jun 24 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago

Jun 15 US government mints first $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo

Jun 08 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State

Jun 15 Lt. Frederick William Campbell (1st Cdn. Infantry Batt.) winds the Victoria Cross at Givenchy France

Jun 01 The first Zeppelin air raid over England

Jun 01 The National Transcontinental Railway is completed between Moncton and Winnipeg via Edmundston, Quebec and Senneterre. Because of the high cost the Grand Trunk refused to lease the line which was operated as a component of the Canadian Government Railways until the formation of the Canadian National System.

Dec 20 Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli Peninsula

Dec 12 The first all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown at Dessau Germany

Dec 19 The birth of Edith Piaf, French singer

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