Dec 04 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in SF (Opened Feb 20 1015)

Dec 04 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County GA

Dec 07 The birth of Eli Wallach, American actor

Dec 10 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt

Dec 18 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt

Dec 28 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph

Dec 21 25.83 cm (10.17") of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)

Dec 12 The birth of Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor

Dec 30 HMS Natal, blew up and sank at her moorings in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland, over 400 lives lost. Sources differ about the date with some giving it as 31st. The cause was speculated about at the time and sabotage was feared by some but the official enquiry put it down to a cordite explosion which becomes unstable when overheated. Other ships had suffered a similar fate, and this is the most likely explanation.

Aug 06 Battle of Lone Pine, Gallipoli starts – Seven Australians receive Victoria Crosses

Aug 08 Battle for Sari Bair

Aug 17 SS Glenby, this Ropner ship was sunk by gunfire from a U boat St. George's Channel. The Germans then machine gunned the survivors in the life boats, killing two and seriously wounding two others

Aug 21 Italy declares war on Turkey

Aug 29 The birth of Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress

Aug 07 Crpl. Cyril Royston Guyton BASSETT, NZ Divisional Signals, NZ Engineers won the Victoria Cross at Chunuk Bair, on the Gallipoli Peninsula

Aug 25 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage

Aug 12 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

Aug 17 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life

Aug 27 Italy declares war on Germany

Aug 06 During World War I, Warsaw falls into German hands

Aug 07 Charge of Australian Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, Gallipoli

Oct 12 English nurse Edith Cavell executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)

Oct 23 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote

Oct 12 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens with dual nationalities

Oct 09 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a world series game (World Series #12)

Oct 21 First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris

Oct 25 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia

Oct 21 Vera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, establishes the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo, Egypt During the remainder of the war the bureau handled thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information about wounded and missing soldiers

Jul 03 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934

Jul 29 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924

Jul 09 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa

Jul 24 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die

Jul 07 The birth of Yul Brynner, American actor

Jul 12 Army orders harvest furloughs to Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers still in training camps in Canada.

Jul 01 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

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