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.

May 23 SS Moldavia, lost off Littlehampton, Sussex. This P & O ship of 9,500 tons was requisitioned in 1915 and converted to an auxilliary cruiser and commissioned by the British Admiralty. Later she was used as a troopship after the USA joined the war and while carrying troops to France she was torpedoed. Most soldiers were rescued but 56 lost their lives.

May 26 Kyarra, torpedoed by a German submarine UB57 2 miles off Anvil Point off the Dorset coast while on a voyage from London to Sydney with a general cargo. 6 lives were lost.

May 15 Greek troops lands at Smyrna

May 26 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia

May 23 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curaçao officially opens

May 13 The first US airmail stamps issued (24¢)

May 27 Battle of Aisne

May 10 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor

May 31 HMS Fairy, Built by Fairfields at Govan, Glasgow this 'C' Class destroyer of about 400 tons rammed the German submarine UC75 off the Yorkshire coast. The Uboat had previously been rammed by the steamer Blaydonian, damaging the casing. The Uboat then surfaced and at first the Commanding Officer of Fairy thought the submarine must be Royal Navy but the normal challenge was not replied to. Fairy then rammed the uboat at the stern because if the boat was British the crew would have time to get out. It then became quite quite clear the boat was German so HMS Fairy rammed her hard just forward of the conning tower. Two of the men from the submarine jumped on to the forecastle of the destroyer and the other twelve crew were rescued from the water. The submarine sank but the bows of the destroyer were seriously damaged as the submarine was a much bigger vessel than HMS Fairy and she, herself, later sank.

May 18 The birth of Pope John Paul II, Head of the Catholic Church

May 31 General Monash succeeds Birdwood as GOC Australian Corps

May 20 The first electrically propelled warship (the New Mexico)

May 28 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent

May 18 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia

May 15 The first regular airmail service (between New York, Philadelphia & Washington DC) inaugurated

May 21 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

May 18 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200

Jul 15 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I

Jul 30 Units of First Marine Aviation Force arrive at Brest, France

Jul 17 SS Carpathia. One of the more well known names, more from assisting the Titanic than from her own sinking, she was of 13,603 tons and built for Cunard by Swan and Hunter on the Tyne in 1902. She was attacked by the German submarine U55, 170 miles west of Bishops Rock, while outward bound to Boston, USA, from Liverpool, a service which had been decided would continue to be maintained in wartime conditions. She was hit by three torpdeoes. Five engine room staff were killed directly by the impact and explosions but 215 crew and all 57 passengers were saved and rescued by the sloop HMS Snowdrop.

Jul 24 Sgt. Richard Charles TRAVIS, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Hebuterne, France

Jul 04 Battle of Hamel, France

Jul 26 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)

Jul 09 US Army's Distinguished Service Cross authorized

Jul 10 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established

Jul 27 Socony 200, first concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY

Jul 16 Nicholas II Russian tsar, and family are executed

Jul 19 The birth of Samuel Colt, US inventor of the Colt 45 revolver

Jul 02 Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, the "Little Digger", addresses Australian troops on the Western Front before the Battle of Hamel, France

Jul 11 M Wolf discovers asteroid #895 Helio

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