...date... age event
1894/--/-- -1 - britain establishes a protectorate over buganda and conquers the rest of uganda.
1894/--/-- -1 - czech decorative artist alfons mucha designs a poster of sarah bernhardt.
1894/--/-- -1 - dreyfus case splits france
1894/--/-- -1 - english artist aubrey beardsley illustrates oscar wilde's salome.
1894/--/-- -1 - english author rudyard kipling publishes the jungle book.
1894/--/-- -1 - percival lowell builds an observatory to study the martian canals.
1894/--/-- -1 - rebellion in korea begins the first sino-japanese war.
1894/--/-- -1 - the arrest of army captain albert dreyfus creates a political crisis in france.
1894/--/-- -1 - thousands of armenians are massacred in turkey.
1894/08/27 0 *** upchurch, william clarence - born to upchurch, abraham l. and tuggle, martha ellen (upchurch)
1895/--/-- 0 - anglo-irish playwright oscar wilde writes the importance of being earnest.
1895/--/-- 0 - japan defeats china; the shimonoseki treaty establishes korean independence.
1895/--/-- 0 - louis and auguste lumiere show the first motion pictures to a paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 0 - russian revolutionary vladimir ilich lenin is exiled to siberia.
1895/--/-- 0 - sir henry irving becomes the first british actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 0 - the american bowling congress (abc) is founded.
1895/--/-- 0 - the cuban war of independence begins against spain; jose marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 0 - the jameson raid on the boer republic of transvaal increases anti-british hostility.
1895/--/-- 0 - the first list of best-selling books is published by the bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 0 - wilhelm rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 0 - x rays are discovered by german physicist wilhelm c. roentgen.
1896/--/-- 1 - a tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in japan.
1896/--/-- 1 - italian composer giacomo puccini writes the opera la boheme.
1896/--/-- 1 - john philip sousa composes the stars and stripes forever.
1896/--/-- 1 - king menelik ii defeats the italians at adwa, maintaining ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 1 - supreme court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 1 - the first modern olympic games are held at athens in greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 1 - utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the union.
1897/--/-- 2 - american comic strip the katzenjammer kids is begun by rudolph dirks.
1897/--/-- 2 - austrian artist gustav klimt helps to found the vienna secession group.
1897/--/-- 2 - british physician havelock ellis begins his studies in the psychology of sex.
1897/--/-- 2 - english author rudyard kipling publishes captains courageous.
1897/--/-- 2 - french dramatist edmond rostand writes cyrano de bergerac.
1897/--/-- 2 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the sleeping gypsy.
1897/--/-- 2 - mckinley is inaugurated as the 25th u.s. president; hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 2 - russian author anton chekhov writes the play uncle vanya.
1897/--/-- 2 - stanislavsky founds the moscow art theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 2 - the first subway un the u.s. opens in boston.
1897/--/-- 2 - theodor herzl organizes the world zionist congress at basel in switzerland.
1897/--/-- 2 - william mckinley (republican) becomes president of the united states
1897/08/27 3 *** upchurch, stanley tuggle [brother] - born to upchurch, abraham l. and tuggle, martha ellen (upchurch)
1898/--/-- 3 - anglo-irish playwright george bernard shaw publishes arms and the man.
1898/--/-- 3 - britain obtains a 99-year lease for hong kong from the chinese.
1898/--/-- 3 - commodore dewey destroys the spanish fleet in manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 3 - cuba occupied by u.s. and released
1898/--/-- 3 - english author h. g. wells publishes the war of the worlds.
1898/--/-- 3 - spain cedes puerto rico, guam and the philippines to the u.s. in the treaty of paris.
1898/--/-- 3 - spanish-american war, cuba, phillipines, us
1898/--/-- 3 - the boxer uprising begins in china; empress tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 3 - the british under kitchener defeat the mahdists at omdurman in sudan.
1898/--/-- 3 - the fashoda incident leads to a french withdrawal from the sudan.
1898/--/-- 3 - the spanish fleet is destroyed off cuba; spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 3 - the spanish-american war begins with a declaration of war by congress.
1898/--/-- 3 - the u.s. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of santiago.
1898/--/-- 3 - the u.s. battleship maine explodes in the spanish port of manila in the philippines.
1898/--/-- 3 - u.s. troops land on cuba; theodore roosevelt's rough riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 3 - william randolph hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-spanish feelings.
1899/--/-- 4 - american artist winslow homer paints the gulf stream.
1899/--/-- 4 - american composer scott joplin publishes his maple leaf rag.
1899/--/-- 4 - designer charles rennie mackintosh completes the glasgow school of art.
1899/--/-- 4 - english composer edward elgar writes the enigma variations.
1899/--/-- 4 - journalist and future statesman winston churchill escapes from boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 4 - sigmund freud "interpretation of dreams"
1899/--/-- 4 - the british under robert baden-powell are besieged by the boers at mafeking.
1899/--/-- 4 - the south african war begins between the boers (afrikaners) and the british.
1899/--/-- 4 - u.s. secretary of state john m. hay advocates an open door policy for china.
1899/08/27 5 *** upchurch, hiram welby [brother] - born to upchurch, abraham l. and tuggle, martha ellen (upchurch)
1900/--/-- 5 - american novelist theodore dreiser publishes his first novel sister carrie.
1900/--/-- 5 - an international force lifts the boxer siege of peking.
1900/--/-- 5 - british politician keir hardie helps to found the labour party.
1900/--/-- 5 - chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in peking during the boxer uprising.
1900/--/-- 5 - dutch physiologist willem einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 5 - hawaii is made a u.s. territory; sanford dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 5 - hector guimard uses art nouveau designs for the entrances to the paris metro.
1900/--/-- 5 - humbert i is assassinated; he is succeeded by victor emanuel iii as king of italy.
1900/--/-- 5 - italian author gabriele d'annunzio publishes the flame of life.
1900/--/-- 5 - james j. jeffries beats jim corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 5 - max planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 5 - psychoanalyst sigmund freud publishes the interpretation of dreams.
1900/--/-- 5 - sir arthur evans begins the excavation of the minoan palace at knossos, crete.
1900/--/-- 5 - the boers begin a guerrilla war against the british occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 5 - the british defeat the boer (afrikaner) armies in south africa and occupy pretoria.
1900/--/-- 5 - the u.s. wins the first davis cup tennis contest.
1901/--/-- 6 - a 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in russia.
1901/--/-- 6 - a stele bearing the code of hammurabi is discovered in susa, iran.
1901/--/-- 6 - american surgeon walter reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 6 - an american league of baseball is formed in competition to the national league.
1901/--/-- 6 - andrew carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 6 - britain incorporates ashanti territory into the gold coast (ghana).
1901/--/-- 6 - english author beatrix potter publishes her children's book the tale of peter rabbit.
1901/--/-- 6 - guglielmo marconi tests radio transmissions between england and newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 6 - king c. gillette founds the american safety razor company.
1901/--/-- 6 - pres. mckinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 6 - president mckinley is assassinated by the anarchist leon czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 6 - queen victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son edward vii.
1901/--/-- 6 - russia occupies manchuria in north-east china.
1901/--/-- 6 - sergei rachmaninoff writes his second piano concerto.
1901/--/-- 6 - sir edward elgar composes the first of his five pomp and circumstance marches.
1901/--/-- 6 - spanish painter pablo picasso's blue period begins.
1901/--/-- 6 - temperance advocate carry nation uses a hatchet to attack a kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 6 - the commonwealth of australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 6 - the first u.s. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 6 - theodore roosevelt (republican) becomes president of the united states
1901/--/-- 6 - theodore roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th u.s. president.
1901/--/-- 6 - victor l. berger and eugene v. debs help found the american socialist party.
1901/01/02 6 - edward vii succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1901/03/31 6 *** parmley, rachel (upchurch) & upchurch, william fox [uncle] - married
1901/12/25 7 *** upchurch, felix [1st cousin] - born to upchurch, william fox and parmley, rachel (upchurch)
1902/--/-- 7 - american artist robert henri paints the new york street scene west 57th street.
1902/--/-- 7 - conan doyle writes the sherlock holmes adventure the hound of the baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 7 - english author joseph conrad publishes heart of darkness.
1902/--/-- 7 - french filmmaker georges melies produces a trip to the moon.
1902/--/-- 7 - italian opera singer enrico caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 7 - maksim gorky's the lower depths is produced at the moscow art theater.
1902/--/-- 7 - oliver wendell holmes jr. is appointed to the u.s. supreme court.
1902/--/-- 7 - roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 7 - the photo-secession group is founded in new york by photographer alfred stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 7 - the treaty of vereeniging ends the south african war.
1902/08/-- 7 - edward vii crowned king of great britain and ireland and emperor of india at wes
1903/--/-- 8 - alexander, king of serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by peter i.
1903/--/-- 8 - american author jack london publishes the call of the wild.
1903/--/-- 8 - american novelist henry james publishes the ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 8 - bernard shaw's play man and superman is produced in london.
1903/--/-- 8 - colonel francis younghusband leads a british military expedition into tibet.
1903/--/-- 8 - edwin s. porter directs the pioneering western film the great train robbery.
1903/--/-- 8 - emmeline pankhurst founds the women's social and political union in britain.
1903/--/-- 8 - marie and pierre curie win the nobel prize for physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 8 - orville wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 8 - panama declares its independence from columbia; the u.s. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 8 - the rolls-royce automobile company is founded in britain.
1903/--/-- 8 - the u.s. acquires perpetual control over the panama canal zone.
1903/--/-- 8 - the first world series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 8 - vladimir ilich lenin organizes the bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 8 - wright bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 9 - world series nl pittsburgh (3) al boston (5)
1904/--/-- 9 - italian composer giacomo puccini's opera madame butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 9 - ivan pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the nobel prize.
1904/--/-- 9 - james barrie's play peter pan is produced in london.
1904/--/-- 9 - max weber publishes the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
1904/--/-- 9 - roosevelt asserts u.s. right to intervene in latin america
1904/--/-- 9 - russia and japan at war
1904/--/-- 9 - russian author anton chekhov's play the cherry orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 9 - territorial disputes in manchuria begin the russo-japanese war.
1904/--/-- 9 - the abbey theatre is founded in dublin.
1904/--/-- 9 - the new york city subway is opened.
1905/--/-- 10 - a general strike and revolution begin in russia; nicholas ii grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 10 - albert einstein proposes special theory of relativity
1905/--/-- 10 - ambrose fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 10 - american humorist and actor will rogers makes his new york city debut.
1905/--/-- 10 - american labor leader eugene v. debs founds the industrial workers of the world.
1905/--/-- 10 - chinese revolutionary sun yat-sen founds the t'ung-meng hui (alliance society).
1905/--/-- 10 - ernst ludwig kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group die brucke.
1905/--/-- 10 - french territorial ambitions spark the first moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 10 - german physicist albert einstein proposes his special theory of relativity.
1905/--/-- 10 - german poet rainer maria rilke publishes the book of hours.
1905/--/-- 10 - henri matisse and andre derain form the fauves (wild beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 10 - psychologist alfred binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 10 - roosevelt begins his second term as u.s. president; fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 10 - the cullinan diamond is found in south africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 10 - the russian fleet is destroyed by the japanese at the battle of tsushima.
1905/--/-- 10 - the sinn fein irish nationalist movement is founded by arthur griffith.
1905/--/-- 10 - the union of norway and sweden is dissolved; haakon vii is elected king of norway.
1905/--/-- 10 - w.e.b. du bois forms the niagara movement to demand full civil rights for black americans.
1905/--/-- 10 - mini-revolution in russia
1905/01/26 10 *** upchurch, felix [1st cousin] - died
1905/10/-- 11 - world series nl new york (4) al philadelphia (1)
1906/--/-- 11 - british author john galsworthy publishes the first novel of the forsythe saga.
1906/--/-- 11 - h.m.s. dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 11 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen traverses the northwest passage.
1906/--/-- 11 - the aga khan iii forms the all-india moslim league.
1906/--/-- 11 - the dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of french army officer alfred dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 11 - the san francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 11 - under the platt amendment u.s. troops return to cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 11 - upton sinclair's novel the jungle leads to the u.s. pure foods and drugs act.
1906/05/27 11 *** upchurch, sallie mae (dyer) [1st cousin] - born to upchurch, william fox and parmley, rachel (upchurch)
1906/10/-- 12 - world series nl chicago (2) al chicago (4)
1907/--/-- 12 - a triple entente is formed between britain, france and russia.
1907/--/-- 12 - anna pavlova dances the dying swan, choreographed by mikhail fokine.
1907/--/-- 12 - irish playwright j.m. synge writes the playboy of the western world.
1907/--/-- 12 - lee de forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 12 - oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the union.
1907/--/-- 12 - rasputin gains influence at the court of russian emperor nicholas ii.
1907/--/-- 12 - the panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the u.s. stock market.
1907/--/-- 12 - the first ziegfeld follies are staged in new york city.
1907/10/-- 13 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (0)
1908/--/-- 13 - an earthquake at messina in italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 13 - austria-hungary annexes bosnia and hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 13 - austrian artist gustav klimt paints the kiss.
1908/--/-- 13 - automaker william durant founds the general motors company.
1908/--/-- 13 - british soldier robert baden-powell founds the boy scout movement.
1908/--/-- 13 - filmmakers charles pathe and leon gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 13 - ge patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 13 - jack johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 13 - kenneth grahame publishes his children's story the wind in the willows.
1908/--/-- 13 - king leopold ii of the belgians establishes the independent state of congo in africa.
1908/--/-- 13 - liberal leader herbert asquith becomes prime minister of britain.
1908/--/-- 13 - mary baker eddy establishes the christian science monitor.
1908/--/-- 13 - pablo picasso and georges braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 13 - the ashcan school of painters exhibit in new york city.
1908/--/-- 13 - the ford motor company produces the first model t automobile.
1908/--/-- 13 - the national association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) is founded.
1908/--/-- 13 - the tunguska fireball explodes in siberia with the force of a modern h-bomb.
1908/--/-- 13 - the young turk revolution in turkey leads to political reform.
1908/10/-- 14 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (1)
1909/--/-- 14 - american architect frank lloyd wright builds the robie house in chicago.
1909/--/-- 14 - american artist george bellows paints the prize fight scene stag at sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 14 - american explorer robert e. peary reaches the north pole.
1909/--/-- 14 - american poet william carlos williams publishes poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 14 - american writer gertrude stein publishes three lives.
1909/--/-- 14 - french aviator louis bleriot makes the first flight across the english channel.
1909/--/-- 14 - naacp in nyc
1909/--/-- 14 - russian impresario serge diaghilev presents the ballet russe in paris.
1909/--/-- 14 - taft is inaugurated as the 27th u.s. president; sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 14 - william howard taft (republican) becomes president of the united states
1909/10/-- 15 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al detroit (3)
1910/--/-- 15 - british empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 15 - british author arnold bennett publishes clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 15 - british politician winston churchill is appointed first lord of the admiralty.
1910/--/-- 15 - france groups four african territories together as french equatorial africa.
1910/--/-- 15 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the dream.
1910/--/-- 15 - french sculptor auguste rodin casts the bronze figure the thinker.
1910/--/-- 15 - fundamentalism begins with "five points"
1910/--/-- 15 - george v succeeds his father edward vii as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/--/-- 15 - german bacteriologist paul ehrlich synthesizes salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 15 - italian artists led by umberto boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 15 - japanese forces annex korea.
1910/--/-- 15 - madero, villa and zapata lead a revolution against mexican dictator porfirio diaz.
1910/--/-- 15 - russian-born artist wassily kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 15 - the art deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 15 - the union of south africa is formed; louis botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 15 - george v succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/10/-- 16 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1911/--/-- 16 - american aviator glen curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 16 - american novelist edith wharton publishes ethan frome.
1911/--/-- 16 - american songwriter irving berlin publishes alexander's ragtime band.
1911/--/-- 16 - elmer a. sperry designs the first american gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 16 - english author g.k. chesterton publishes the first father brown story.
1911/--/-- 16 - german-american anthropologist franz boas publishes the mind of primitive man.
1911/--/-- 16 - hans geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 16 - italy's attempts to annex cyrenaica and tripolitania leads to the italo-turkish war.
1911/--/-- 16 - mexican dictator porfirio diaz is overthrown; francisco madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 16 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen reaches the south pole ahead of robert scott.
1911/--/-- 16 - richard strauss' opera der rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 16 - robert a millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 16 - russian artist marc chagall paints i and my village.
1911/--/-- 16 - sir ernest rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 16 - the ch'ing dynasty is deposed in china; a republic is formed under sun yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 16 - the first film studio is established at hollywood in california.
1911/--/-- 16 - tibet declares its independence from china.
1911/--/-- 16 - willis carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/06/02 16 - george v crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by randa
1911/10/-- 17 - world series nl new york (2) al philadelphia (4)
1912/--/-- 17 - american indian jim thorpe wins the olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 17 - american author edgar rice burroughs publishes tarzan of the apes.
1912/--/-- 17 - american writer willa cather publishes her first novel alexander's bridge.
1912/--/-- 17 - arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 17 - austrian psychologist alfred adler publishes the neurotic constitution.
1912/--/-- 17 - british explorers under scott reach the south pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 17 - french dada artist marcel duchamp paints nude descending a staircase.
1912/--/-- 17 - german geophysicist alfred wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 17 - morocco is divided between france and spain after the second moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 17 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 17 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 17 - piltdown man is discovered in britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 17 - russian dancer vaslav nijinsky choreographs and dances in the afternoon of the faun.
1912/--/-- 17 - the balkan league begins the first balkan war against the ottoman empire.
1912/--/-- 17 - the liner titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 17 - theodore roosevelt campaigns for the u.s. presidency under the bull moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 18 - world series nl new york (3) al boston (4)
1913/--/-- 18 - american poet robert frost publishes a boy's will.
1913/--/-- 18 - bertrand russell and a.e. whitehead publish principia mathematica.
1913/--/-- 18 - danish physicist niels bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 18 - english novelist d.h. lawrence publishes sons and lovers.
1913/--/-- 18 - federal income tax is introduced in the u.s.
1913/--/-- 18 - igor stravinsky's ballet the rite of spring causes a scandal at the paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 18 - indian poet rabindranath tagore wins the nobel prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 18 - king george i of greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by constantine i
1913/--/-- 18 - marcel proust writes the first volume of remembrance of things past.
1913/--/-- 18 - medical missionary albert schweitzer builds a hospital at lambarene in africa.
1913/--/-- 18 - russian revolutionary joseph stalin is exiled to siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 18 - samuel goldwyn founds his first movie company with jesse lasky and cecil b. de mille.
1913/--/-- 18 - socialists sidney and beatrice webb found the political journal the new statesman.
1913/--/-- 18 - the constructivism art movement begins in russia.
1913/--/-- 18 - the island of crete is united with greece.
1913/--/-- 18 - the second balkan war begins with a bulgarian attack on serbia.
1913/--/-- 18 - victoriano huerta leads a military coup in mexico; president francisco madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 18 - wilson is inaugurated as the 28th u.s. president; marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 18 - woodrow wilson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1913/10/-- 19 - world series nl new york (1) al philadelphia (4)
1914/--/-- 19 - a british expedition led by ernest shackleton is marooned in the antarctic.
1914/--/-- 19 - a german fleet defeats the british at coronel but is decimated at the falklands.
1914/--/-- 19 - archduke franz ferdinand is assassinated in sarajevo, precipitating world war i.
1914/--/-- 19 - austrian forces invade serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 19 - black composer w.c. handy writes the st. louis blues.
1914/--/-- 19 - charlie chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 19 - france, russia and britain (the allies) are at war with germany and austria-hungary.
1914/--/-- 19 - george bernard shaw's play pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 19 - german forces invade belgium and france but are halted at the marne.
1914/--/-- 19 - german submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 19 - japan joins the allies and captures the german base of tsingtao in china.
1914/--/-- 19 - mack sennett produces comedy films starring the keystone kops.
1914/--/-- 19 - parisian couturier coco chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 19 - president wilson declares u.s. neutrality in world war i.
1914/--/-- 19 - russian forces invade east prussia but are defeated at the battle of tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 19 - the panama canal is completed, connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans.
1914/--/-- 19 - turkey declares war on the allies; britain annexes turkish cyprus.
1914/--/-- 19 - u.s. marines land at veracruz in mexico; president huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 19 - world war i begins
1914/02/22 19 *** dick, velma ingroma (upchurch) & upchurch, obie cleveland [brother] - married
1914/10/-- 20 - world series nl boston (4) al philadelphia (0)
1915/--/-- 20 - a german submarine torpedoes the british liner lusitania; 124 americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 20 - albert einstein formulates his general theory of relativity.
1915/--/-- 20 - anglo-french forces land at gallipoli in an attempt to force turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 20 - austrian writer franz kafka publishes the metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 20 - d. w. griffith's movie the birth of a nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 20 - emiliano zapata and pancho villa lead rebellions against venustiano carranza in mexico.
1915/--/-- 20 - english author somerset maugham publishes of human bondage.
1915/--/-- 20 - german zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on britain.
1915/--/-- 20 - italy joins the allies and invades austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 20 - president wilson recognizes the mexican government of venustiano carranza.
1915/--/-- 20 - serbia is overrun by the combined forces of austria, germany and bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 20 - the anzacs (australian and new zealand army corps) fight at gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 20 - the dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 20 - the germans use poison gas for the first time at ypres on the western front.
1915/--/-- 20 - u.s. marines land in haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 20 - war poet rupert brooke's 1914 and other poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/01/31 20 *** upchurch, ahile knox [1st cousin] - born to upchurch, william fox and parmley, rachel (upchurch) albany, ky
1915/10/-- 21 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al boston (4)
1916/--/-- 21 - albert einstein proposes general theory of relativity
1916/--/-- 21 - allied forces withdraw from gallipoli after strong turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 21 - american poet carl sandburg publishes his first book chicago poems.
1916/--/-- 21 - british forces assault the german line at the somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 21 - german assaults at verdun are repulsed by the french with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 21 - james joyce publishes a portrait of the artist as a young man.
1916/--/-- 21 - jeannette rankin becomes the first female member of u.s. house of representatives.
1916/--/-- 21 - lloyd george becomes prime minister of britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 21 - margaret sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 21 - north sea storms flood lowlands in the netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 21 - t. tzara dada
1916/--/-- 21 - the british and german fleets clash at the battle of jutland.
1916/--/-- 21 - the easter rising in dublin is suppressed within a week by the british.
1916/--/-- 21 - the russian brusilov offensive meets with success on the eastern front.
1916/--/-- 21 - the trans-siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 21 - u.s. marines land in santo domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 21 - u.s. troops under pershing invade mexico in retaliation for raids by pancho villa.
1916/10/-- 22 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al boston (4)
1917/--/-- 22 - adoption of the convoy system reduces allied losses to german submarines.
1917/--/-- 22 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot publishes the love song of j. alfred prufrock.
1917/--/-- 22 - art critic and writer guillaume apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 22 - astrophysicist karl schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 22 - blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 22 - british forces attack the germans in the third battle of ypres.
1917/--/-- 22 - british forces under allenby capture jerusalem and bagdhad from the turks.
1917/--/-- 22 - dutch artists theo van doesburg and piet mondrian found the magazine de stijl.
1917/--/-- 22 - english composer gustav holst completes the planets.
1917/--/-- 22 - english humorist p.g. wodehouse creates bertie wooster and his butler jeeves.
1917/--/-- 22 - germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 22 - italian forces are defeated by austria at the battle of caporetto.
1917/--/-- 22 - russian revolutions: communist u.s.s.r. formed
1917/--/-- 22 - selective service act creates draft
1917/--/-- 22 - swiss psychiatrist carl jung publishes the psychology of the unconscious.
1917/--/-- 22 - t.e. lawrence (lawrence of arabia) leads the arab revolt against the turks.
1917/--/-- 22 - the balfour declaration endorses a jewish national homeland in palestine.
1917/--/-- 22 - the germans and the bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at brest-litovsk.
1917/--/-- 22 - the germans help lenin return to russia from exile in switzerland.
1917/--/-- 22 - the jones act gives all puerto ricans the right to u.s. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 22 - the russian revolution begins; emperor nicholas ii abdicates.
1917/--/-- 22 - the u.s. purchases the virgin islands from denmark.
1917/--/-- 22 - the united states declares war on germany.
1917/--/-- 22 - the zimmermann note proposing a secret mexican alliance with germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 22 - the disastrous nivelle offensive leads to mutinies in the french army.
1917/--/-- 22 - the earliest jazz recordings are made in new york city.
1917/--/-- 22 - the first pulitzer prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 22 - the provisional kerensky government is deposed; bolsheviks seize power in russia.
1917/10/-- 23 - world series nl new york (2) al chicago (4)
1917/10/20 23 *** mckinley, ida helen (upchurch) & upchurch, stanley tuggle [brother] - married
1917/11/14 23 *** upchurch, willie alma [niece] - born to upchurch, obie cleveland and dick, velma ingroma (upchurch)
1918/--/-- 23 - advances by french, british and american armies force a general german retreat.
1918/--/-- 23 - american astronomer harlow shapley discovers the dimensions of the milky way.
1918/--/-- 23 - american author booth tarkington writes the magnificent ambersons.
1918/--/-- 23 - american forcesunder pershing help to stem the german offensive.
1918/--/-- 23 - an airmail service begins among new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c.
1918/--/-- 23 - an influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 23 - austria, poland and czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of world war i.
1918/--/-- 23 - bloomsbury group member lytton strachey publishes eminent victorians.
1918/--/-- 23 - bolshevik leader leon trotsky organizes the red army.
1918/--/-- 23 - civil war breaks out between the red and white russian armies.
1918/--/-- 23 - french composer erik satie writes socrate.
1918/--/-- 23 - german air ace manfred von richthofen (the red baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 23 - nicholas ii, the last emperor of russia, and his family are executed by the bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 23 - revolution breaks out in germany; emperor william ii flees to the netherlands.
1918/--/-- 23 - shapley determines sun is part of milky way galaxy
1918/--/-- 23 - the germans renew their assault on the western front in the ludendorff offensive.
1918/--/-- 23 - the weimar republic negotiates an armistice for germany, ending world war i.
1918/--/-- 23 - the world's largest telescope is installed at mount wilson observatory.
1918/--/-- 23 - women over 30 win the vote in britain.
1918/09/09 24 *** upchurch, william clarence - died
1918/10/-- 24 - world series nl chicago (2) al boston (4)
in 1894 transportation was by:
foot
horse
bicycle
train
steamboat
by 1918 transportation was by:
balloon
propeller airplane
in addition.
in 1894 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
by 1918 communications was by:
telephone
in addition.
in 1894 food preparation was by:
wood
in 1894 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1894 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1894 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
machine guns
submarine
iron clad ships
mines
by 1918 war making was by:
tank
tnt
chemical agents
aeroplane
in addition.
by 1918 war making by:
calvary
had been discontinued.
in 1894 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
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