Feb 22 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

Feb 05 Mexican constitution proclaimed

Feb 03 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub

Feb 10 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands first female professor

Feb 25 The birth of Anthony Burgess, English novelist

Feb 21 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die

Feb 05 Mexico adopts it's constitution. The country now celebrates Constitution Day on February 5th to commemorate the event.

Feb 24 Russian revolution breaks out

Feb 28 The birth of John B Connally, Texas Governor who was shot with JFK

Feb 20 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die

Feb 15 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated

Feb 04 Belgium Council of Flanders established

Feb 24 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)

Feb 21 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die

Feb 23 February revolution begins in Russia

Feb 12 Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet

Feb 27 Women in Ontario win right to vote in provincial elections

Feb 16 First synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid

Feb 28 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI

Feb 28 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets

Feb 05 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration

Feb 03 The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Germany, due to Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

Feb 26 First Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)

Feb 25 Laconia, a Cunard ship. Sunk by torpedo attack from German U-boat U50 on the return journey from the USA to Liverpool while about 150 miles north west of the Fastnet Rock. There was a crew of 217 and she was carrying 75 passengers. 12 people were killed, 6 crew and 6 passengers.

Apr 03 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd

Apr 10 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers

Apr 20 SS Ballochbuie, torpedoed and sunk by German UC41 off the Firth of Forth Isle of May. In passage from Aberdeen to Sunderland.

Apr 06 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

Apr 09 Battle of Arras begins

Apr 09 Lance-Sargent Ellis Wellwood Sifton (Cdn. 18th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France

Apr 09 Pvt. William Johnstone Milne (Cdn. 16th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France

Apr 06 The United States enter World War I

Apr 02 Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

Apr 04 British Columbia gives women the provincial vote.

Apr 16 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution

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