Aug 16 Prv. Harry Brown (10th Cdn. infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France

Aug 01 Frank Little, IWW organizer is lynched in Butte, Montana

Aug 23 Ontario cabinet passes order-in-council allowing the city of Berlin to change its name to Kitchener, effective Sept. 1; due to wartime anti-German sentiment.

Aug 21 Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France

Oct 15 USS Cassin (DD-43) torpedoed by German submarine U-61 off coast of Ireland. In trying to save the ship, Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram becomes first American sailor killed in World War I and later is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism. He becomes the first enlisted man to have a ship named for him, in 1919.

Oct 26 Prv. Thomas W. Holmes (4th Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 31 Australian Light Horse charges Turkish positions at Beersheba, Palestine

Oct 22 The birth of Joan Fontaine, American actress

Oct 26 Lt. Robert Shankland (43 Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 15 Mata Hari Dutch dancer/German spy executed by firing squad in Paris

Oct 02 HMS Drake, a Armoured cruiser of 14,000 tons built in 1902 torpedoed by U79. She was beached by her Captain, S H Radcliffe in Church Bay on the north coast of Ulster. All the crew was consequently saved.

Oct 31 Major George R. Pearkes (5th Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 28 Prv. Cecil John Kinross (49th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 21 First Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I

Oct 30 Lt. Hugh Mackenzie (7th Cdn. Machine Gun Company) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 23 The Canadian Railway War Board holds its first meeting in the Canadian Pacific Boardroom in Windsor Station, Montreal. The name was changed to the Railway Association of Canada in 1919. The RAC represents the interests of all railways operating in Canada.

Oct 17 First train over the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence. This was constructed by the Dominion Government for use by the National Transcontinental Railway. This bridge was notorious in that it fell down twice during construction On August 29, 1907 the south cantilever arm collapsed killing 65 or more workmen.

Oct 30 Sgt. George Harry Mullin (Princess Patricia's Cdn. Light Infantry) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 26 Capt. Christopher P.J. O'Kelly (52nd Cdn. Infantry BAtt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

Oct 17 First train over the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence. This was constructed by the Dominion Government for use by the National Transcontinental Railway. This bridge was notorious in that it fell down twice during construction: On August 29, 1907 the south cantilever arm collapsed killing 65 or more workmen.

Jul 04 Engineers at Langley Field in Virginia called an airplane flying several miles away

Jul 17 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor

Jul 22 M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba & #881 Athene

Jul 22 Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service – Sisters Cawood, Deacon and Ross-King and Staff Nurse Derrer – win Military Medals for rescuing patients trapped in a burning Casualty Clearing Station at Trois Arbes, France These were the first bravery awards won by Australian nurses in action

Jul 31 Crpl.Leslie Wilton ANDREW, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment won the Victoria Cross at La Bassee-Ville, France,

Jul 09 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 800

Jul 01 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)

Jul 22 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM

Jul 20 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is first drawn

Jul 10 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft

Jul 31 Third battle of Ypres begins

Jul 12 The birth of Andrew Wyeth, American painter

Mar 02 Puerto Ricans are granted US citizenship.

Mar 15 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate

Mar 23 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US

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