Mar 31 First daylight savings time in US goes into effect

Mar 03 Richard Göring's "Seeschlacht", premieres in Berlin

Mar 23 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River

Mar 27 Lt. Alan Arnett MCLeod Cdn. (Royal Flying Corp) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France

Mar 14 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco

Mar 11 Save the Redwoods League founded

Mar 23 Crépy-en-Laonnoise German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed

Mar 28 Anti-conscription riots break out in Quebec City; four civilians killed in shooting match with soldiers over Easter weekend.

Mar 11 Moscow becomes capitol of revolutionary Russia

Mar 23 The giant German gun, Big Bertha, shells Paris from 120 km away;

Mar 21 During World War I, the Second Battle of the Somme, the first major German offensive in over a year, begins on the Western Front

Mar 04 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)

Mar 06 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle

Mar 21 Offensive on the Somme begins, the last major offensive of World War I

Mar 13 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

Mar 03 Russia withdraws from WWI, signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany & Austria

Mar 23 Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed

Mar 17 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford

Mar 30 Lt. Gordon M. Flowerdew Cdn. (Lord Strathcona's Horse) wins the Victoria Cross at Bois de Moreuil, France

Mar 09 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

Mar 23 Lithuania proclaims independence

Mar 18 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam

Mar 09 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda

Mar 17 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Nathaniel Niles

Mar 19 S Potter becomes first US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane

Mar 19 Congress authorizes time zones &approves daylight saving time

Mar 07 President Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal

Mar 23 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)

Mar 05 Moscow becomes the new capital city of Russia

Aug 09 Lt. James E. Tait (78th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 15 US and Russia sever diplomatic ties

Aug 09 Cpl. Alexander P. Brereton (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 12 Prv. Thomas Dinesen (42nd Cdn. Infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Parvillers, France

Aug 15 First full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)

Aug 09 Cpl. Harry G. B. Miner (58th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

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