Oct 15 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money

Oct 07 The Worlds oldest airline KLM is established in Holland

Oct 11 The first ever 'inflight' meals are served on a flight from London to Paris

Oct 17 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created

Jul 04 Jack Dempsey beats Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship

Jul 11 Pay Corps renamed Supply Corps

Jul 21 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)

Jul 01 First class postage drops from 3. to 2.

Jul 05 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his first of 72 times

Jul 24 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)

Jul 27 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)

Jul 08 Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference

Jul 13 Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas

Jul 06 British R-34 lands in NY, first airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

Jul 15 The birth of Iris Murdoch, English writer

Jul 10 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

Jul 04 M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana

Jul 24 The birth of Peter Yates, British director

Mar 30 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf

Mar 02 First congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin

Mar 18 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City

Mar 17 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages

Mar 03 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

Mar 15 American Legion forms (Paris France)

Mar 23 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms

Mar 23 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted

Mar 17 The birth of Nat King Cole, Popular American singer and pianist

Mar 21 Navy installs and tests Sperry gyrocompass, in first instance of test of aircraft gyrocompass

Mar 31 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann

Mar 07 The Minister of Railways is appointed as receiver for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

Mar 11 General strike in Germany, crushed

Mar 23 Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento

Mar 03 First international air mail service from US, Seattle WA-Victoria BC

Mar 01 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin

Mar 30 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

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