Jul 30 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ

Jul 22 Ten people are killed when a bomb explodes during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco.

Jul 19 Battle of Fromelles, France starts

Jul 22 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10

Jul 03 The first of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)

Jul 11 The first federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted

Jul 01 The birth of Olivia de Havilland, American film actress

Jul 01 Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo

Jul 23 Australians enter the action in the battle of the Somme at Pozières and Mouquet Farm, France

Jul 25 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks

Jul 28 Navy establishes a Code and Signal Section which initially worked against German ciphers and tested the security of communications during U.S. naval training maneuvers.

Jul 15 American airline manufacturer Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing), opens its doors.

Jul 15 22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC

Mar 09 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)

Mar 20 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium

Mar 15 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months

Mar 16 US &Canada sign Migratory bird treaty

Mar 25 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match

Mar 19 First U.S. Air Combat Mission Begins Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history

Mar 08 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime

Mar 15 University of Gent goes under Dutch control

Mar 26 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary

Mar 14 Battle of Verdun German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

Mar 12 French airship sinks British submarine D3

Mar 17 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history

Mar 25 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title (New York NY)

Mar 14 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

Mar 31 Dutch government ends all military engagements

Mar 15 Six days after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa killed seventeen Americans during a raid into U.S. territory, President Woodrow Wilson sends 6,600 U.S. troops over the border to capture Villa dead or alive

Mar 16 Canada signs Migratory Bird Treaty with the US

Mar 09 Germany declares war against Portugal

Mar 01 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic

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