Oct 28 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up

Oct 01 Australian Light Horsemen take Damascus, Syria

Oct 03 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria

Oct 01 Sgt. William Merrifield (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Abancourt, France

Oct 12 First use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)

Oct 11 Lt. Wallace L. Algie (20th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

Oct 08 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans

Oct 21 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min

Oct 21 The Mount Royal Tunnel, Montreal, is opened for regular traffic by the Canadian Northern Railway.

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

Jul 25 Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of US, Calif

Jul 14 Jay Forrester, a pioneer in computer memory, was born . Forrester studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later became a professor and researcher. In 1945

Jul 09 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn

Jul 19 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)

Jul 18 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I

Jul 22 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park

Jul 18 The birth of Nelson Mandella, South African President

Jul 25 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)

Jul 14 The birth of Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director

Jul 04 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa

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

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