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
Aug 24 Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) The ACF coordinated the activities of the various State "patriotic funds" set up in 1914 to collect money to send comfort parcels to service personnel overseas
Aug 29 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown
Aug 03 Australian Light Horse in battle of Romani, Egypt
Aug 28 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
Aug 01 Hawaii National Park established
Aug 08 Battle for Mouquet Farm
