Feb 26 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

Feb 28 SS Normanby.built in 1889 for the Ropner Company, the ship was mined and sunk off the Shipwash Lightship.

Feb 26 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia

Feb 21 The Battle of Verdun (France) begins during WWI.

Apr 06 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #857 Glasenappia

Apr 10 The first professional golf tournament held

Apr 05 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette

Apr 20 Wrigley Field in Chicago opens

Apr 24 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins

Apr 28 M Wolf discovers asteroid #826 Henrika

Apr 05 The birth of Gregory Peck, American actor

Apr 22 The birth of Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist

Apr 29 Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin

Apr 08 Australian soldiers take up positions on the Western Front at Armentières, France

Apr 04 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI

Apr 03 S Belyavskij disc asteroid 854 Frostia, 855 Newcombia and 856 Backlunda

Apr 18 In the Fox Islands, Alaska area a 7.4 quake was one of the largest earthquakes in the United States

Apr 02 Belyavskij disc asteroid #851 Zeissia ͔ Wladilena ͕ Nansenia

Apr 25 First commemoration of Anzac Day

Nov 29 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic

Nov 03 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar

Nov 21 Franz Josef of Austria, dies

Nov 07 Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President

Nov 27 City of Birmingham, an Ellerman Lines ship, of 7,498 grt, and built by Palmers of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1911, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U32, 90 miles south-east of Malta while bound from Liverpool to Karachi. with 315 passengers and crew on board, 4 lost their lives, all crew

Nov 08 HMS Zulu, a Tribal Class Royal Navy destroyer. Disabled by a mine in the Dover Straits which destroyed the after part of the ship. The fore part of HMS Zulu and the aft part of HMS Nubian were salvaged and later joined together to form HMS Zubian. This ship went on to acquire battle honours, to be sold later in 1919.

Nov 04 The birth of Walter Cronkite, Legendary US TV reporter

Nov 13 Battle of the Somme ends, with a cost of 60,000 Allied lives

Sep 15 First tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France

Sep 15 Sgt. Donal Forrester Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at High Wood, Somme France

Sep 01 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

Sep 04 Christy Mathewson &Mordecai Brown final baseball game

Sep 03 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun

Sep 10 The suspension span ofQuebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence which was being lifted, buckled and fell into the river killing 10 - 12 workmen.

Sep 28 The birth of Peter Finch, English film actor

Sep 16 Prv. John Chipman Kerr (49 Cdn. Infantry Batt.( wins the Victoria Cross at the Somme, France

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