Dec 01 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown

Dec 04 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed

Dec 13 Wilson, becomes first to make a foreign visit as president (France)

Dec 19 Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not feature in The New York Globe. (If you like the weird and unusual, check out the bizarre web sites featured on our Strange But True page.)

Dec 11 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dissident Russian writer, was born

Dec 04 President Woodrow Wilson sails in USS George Washington for Paris Peace Conference.

Dec 20 The use of the collective title "Canadian National Railways" is authorized by order in council P.C. 3122.

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

Aug 27 Lt-Colonel William H. CLark-Kennedy (24th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Fresnes-Rouvroy, France

Aug 09 Lt. Jean Brillant (22nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 09 Sgt. Raphael Louis Zengel (5th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 09 Cpl. Joseph Kaeble (22nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 20 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I

Aug 09 Cpl. Frederick G. Coppins (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 17 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000

Aug 25 The birth of Leonard Bernstein, Composer and conductor

Aug 12 Sgt. Robert Spall Prices Patricia's Cdn. Light Infantry) wins the Victoria Cross at Parvillers, France

Aug 26 Lt. Charles S. Rutherford (5th Cdn. Infranty Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Monchy-le-Preux, France

Aug 08 Battle for Amiens begins

Aug 08 Prv. John B. Cook (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 24 Sgt. Samuel Forsyth, NZ Engineers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Grevillers, France

Aug 11 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans

Aug 08 Cpl. Herman J. Good (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 27 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia

Oct 25 Nearly 400 passengers drown when the Canadian steamship Princess Sophia founders off the Alaskan coast.

Oct 08 Capt. Coulson Norman Mitchell (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

Oct 27 Major William G. Barker Cdn. (Royal air Force) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France

Oct 30 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state

Oct 12 Cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die

Oct 17 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic

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