Jun 04 US marines invade Costa Rica

Jun 25 First advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

Jun 15 Alcok & Brown land the first nonstop Atlantic flight in Ireland

Jun 21 Germans scuttle their own fleet rather than surrender it to the Allies

Jun 04 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill

Jun 28 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence

Dec 20 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)

Dec 22 US deports 250 alien radicals

Dec 19 American Meteorological Society found

Dec 24 John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, gave away one-hundred million dollars and I missed it

Dec 11 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala

Dec 01 Lady Astor sworn-in as first female member of British Parliament

Dec 23 First hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched

Dec 13 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London

Aug 31 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group

Aug 31 Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago

Aug 23 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune

Aug 25 Commercial air passenger service begins between England and Paris.

Aug 08 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence

Aug 10 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane

Aug 06 The first air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)

Aug 13 Australia's first demonstration of wireless telephony given by Ernest Fisk to illustrate a lecture in Sydney.

Aug 29 Prince Edward Island removes ban on automobiles after several years of no cars.

Aug 25 The first scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)

Aug 13 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)

Aug 14 The first plane flight between Montreal and Quebec; takes 5 hours, now it takes the same time but we now include the time to get to and from the airports

Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto

Oct 02 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke

Oct 08 The first transcontinental air race in the United States begins.

Oct 11 The first transcontinental air race ends

Oct 19 First Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman

Oct 27 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim

Oct 07 First London-Amsterdam airline service begins (Brit Aerial Transport)

Oct 13 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas

Oct 28 Congress overrides the presidential veto of the Volstead Prohibition Act.

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