...date... age event
1904/--/-- -1 - italian composer giacomo puccini's opera madame butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- -1 - ivan pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the nobel prize.
1904/--/-- -1 - james barrie's play peter pan is produced in london.
1904/--/-- -1 - max weber publishes the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
1904/--/-- -1 - roosevelt asserts u.s. right to intervene in latin america
1904/--/-- -1 - russia and japan at war
1904/--/-- -1 - russian author anton chekhov's play the cherry orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- -1 - territorial disputes in manchuria begin the russo-japanese war.
1904/--/-- -1 - the abbey theatre is founded in dublin.
1904/--/-- -1 - the new york city subway is opened.
1904/12/05 0 *** grider, golda (thrasher) - born to grider, george w. and duvall, myrtle "myrtie" (grider)
1905/--/-- 0 - a general strike and revolution begin in russia; nicholas ii grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 0 - albert einstein proposes special theory of relativity
1905/--/-- 0 - ambrose fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 0 - american humorist and actor will rogers makes his new york city debut.
1905/--/-- 0 - american labor leader eugene v. debs founds the industrial workers of the world.
1905/--/-- 0 - chinese revolutionary sun yat-sen founds the t'ung-meng hui (alliance society).
1905/--/-- 0 - ernst ludwig kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group die brucke.
1905/--/-- 0 - french territorial ambitions spark the first moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 0 - german physicist albert einstein proposes his special theory of relativity.
1905/--/-- 0 - german poet rainer maria rilke publishes the book of hours.
1905/--/-- 0 - henri matisse and andre derain form the fauves (wild beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 0 - psychologist alfred binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 0 - roosevelt begins his second term as u.s. president; fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 0 - the cullinan diamond is found in south africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 0 - the russian fleet is destroyed by the japanese at the battle of tsushima.
1905/--/-- 0 - the sinn fein irish nationalist movement is founded by arthur griffith.
1905/--/-- 0 - the union of norway and sweden is dissolved; haakon vii is elected king of norway.
1905/--/-- 0 - w.e.b. du bois forms the niagara movement to demand full civil rights for black americans.
1905/--/-- 0 - mini-revolution in russia
1905/01/26 0 *** upchurch, felix [2nd cousin] - died
1905/03/04 0 *** pierce, ann eliza (grider) [grandmother] - died albany cem. albany ky
1905/10/-- 0 - world series nl new york (4) al philadelphia (1)
1906/--/-- 1 - british author john galsworthy publishes the first novel of the forsythe saga.
1906/--/-- 1 - h.m.s. dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 1 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen traverses the northwest passage.
1906/--/-- 1 - the aga khan iii forms the all-india moslim league.
1906/--/-- 1 - the dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of french army officer alfred dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 1 - the san francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 1 - under the platt amendment u.s. troops return to cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 1 - upton sinclair's novel the jungle leads to the u.s. pure foods and drugs act.
1906/05/27 1 *** upchurch, sallie mae (dyer) [2nd cousin] - born to upchurch, william fox and parmley, rachel (upchurch)
1906/10/-- 1 - world series nl chicago (2) al chicago (4)
1907/--/-- 2 - a triple entente is formed between britain, france and russia.
1907/--/-- 2 - anna pavlova dances the dying swan, choreographed by mikhail fokine.
1907/--/-- 2 - irish playwright j.m. synge writes the playboy of the western world.
1907/--/-- 2 - lee de forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 2 - oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the union.
1907/--/-- 2 - rasputin gains influence at the court of russian emperor nicholas ii.
1907/--/-- 2 - the panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the u.s. stock market.
1907/--/-- 2 - the first ziegfeld follies are staged in new york city.
1907/10/-- 2 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (0)
1908/--/-- 3 *** parmley, mary ellen (crockett) [1st cousin once removed] - died
1908/--/-- 3 - an earthquake at messina in italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 3 - austria-hungary annexes bosnia and hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 3 - austrian artist gustav klimt paints the kiss.
1908/--/-- 3 - automaker william durant founds the general motors company.
1908/--/-- 3 - british soldier robert baden-powell founds the boy scout movement.
1908/--/-- 3 - filmmakers charles pathe and leon gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 3 - ge patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 3 - jack johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 3 - kenneth grahame publishes his children's story the wind in the willows.
1908/--/-- 3 - king leopold ii of the belgians establishes the independent state of congo in africa.
1908/--/-- 3 - liberal leader herbert asquith becomes prime minister of britain.
1908/--/-- 3 - mary baker eddy establishes the christian science monitor.
1908/--/-- 3 - pablo picasso and georges braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 3 - the ashcan school of painters exhibit in new york city.
1908/--/-- 3 - the ford motor company produces the first model t automobile.
1908/--/-- 3 - the national association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) is founded.
1908/--/-- 3 - the tunguska fireball explodes in siberia with the force of a modern h-bomb.
1908/--/-- 3 - the young turk revolution in turkey leads to political reform.
1908/09/09 3 *** grider, smith [grandfather] - died albany cem. - albany ky
1908/10/-- 3 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (1)
1909/--/-- 4 - american architect frank lloyd wright builds the robie house in chicago.
1909/--/-- 4 - american artist george bellows paints the prize fight scene stag at sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 4 - american explorer robert e. peary reaches the north pole.
1909/--/-- 4 - american poet william carlos williams publishes poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 4 - american writer gertrude stein publishes three lives.
1909/--/-- 4 - french aviator louis bleriot makes the first flight across the english channel.
1909/--/-- 4 - naacp in nyc
1909/--/-- 4 - russian impresario serge diaghilev presents the ballet russe in paris.
1909/--/-- 4 - taft is inaugurated as the 27th u.s. president; sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 4 - william howard taft (republican) becomes president of the united states
1909/10/-- 4 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al detroit (3)
1910/--/-- 5 - british empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 5 - british author arnold bennett publishes clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 5 - british politician winston churchill is appointed first lord of the admiralty.
1910/--/-- 5 - france groups four african territories together as french equatorial africa.
1910/--/-- 5 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the dream.
1910/--/-- 5 - french sculptor auguste rodin casts the bronze figure the thinker.
1910/--/-- 5 - fundamentalism begins with "five points"
1910/--/-- 5 - george v succeeds his father edward vii as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/--/-- 5 - german bacteriologist paul ehrlich synthesizes salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 5 - italian artists led by umberto boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 5 - japanese forces annex korea.
1910/--/-- 5 - madero, villa and zapata lead a revolution against mexican dictator porfirio diaz.
1910/--/-- 5 - russian-born artist wassily kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 5 - the art deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 5 - the union of south africa is formed; louis botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 5 - george v succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/10/-- 5 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1911/--/-- 6 - american aviator glen curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 6 - american novelist edith wharton publishes ethan frome.
1911/--/-- 6 - american songwriter irving berlin publishes alexander's ragtime band.
1911/--/-- 6 - elmer a. sperry designs the first american gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 6 - english author g.k. chesterton publishes the first father brown story.
1911/--/-- 6 - german-american anthropologist franz boas publishes the mind of primitive man.
1911/--/-- 6 - hans geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 6 - italy's attempts to annex cyrenaica and tripolitania leads to the italo-turkish war.
1911/--/-- 6 - mexican dictator porfirio diaz is overthrown; francisco madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 6 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen reaches the south pole ahead of robert scott.
1911/--/-- 6 - richard strauss' opera der rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 6 - robert a millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 6 - russian artist marc chagall paints i and my village.
1911/--/-- 6 - sir ernest rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 6 - the ch'ing dynasty is deposed in china; a republic is formed under sun yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 6 - the first film studio is established at hollywood in california.
1911/--/-- 6 - tibet declares its independence from china.
1911/--/-- 6 - willis carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/06/02 6 - george v crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by randa
1911/08/07 6 *** pierce, martha jane (cook) [great aunt] - died albany cem. - albany ky
1911/10/-- 6 - world series nl new york (2) al philadelphia (4)
1912/--/-- 7 - american indian jim thorpe wins the olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 7 - american author edgar rice burroughs publishes tarzan of the apes.
1912/--/-- 7 - american writer willa cather publishes her first novel alexander's bridge.
1912/--/-- 7 - arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 7 - austrian psychologist alfred adler publishes the neurotic constitution.
1912/--/-- 7 - british explorers under scott reach the south pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 7 - french dada artist marcel duchamp paints nude descending a staircase.
1912/--/-- 7 - german geophysicist alfred wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 7 - morocco is divided between france and spain after the second moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 7 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 7 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 7 - piltdown man is discovered in britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 7 - russian dancer vaslav nijinsky choreographs and dances in the afternoon of the faun.
1912/--/-- 7 - the balkan league begins the first balkan war against the ottoman empire.
1912/--/-- 7 - the liner titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 7 - theodore roosevelt campaigns for the u.s. presidency under the bull moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 7 - world series nl new york (3) al boston (4)
1913/--/-- 8 - american poet robert frost publishes a boy's will.
1913/--/-- 8 - bertrand russell and a.e. whitehead publish principia mathematica.
1913/--/-- 8 - danish physicist niels bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 8 - english novelist d.h. lawrence publishes sons and lovers.
1913/--/-- 8 - federal income tax is introduced in the u.s.
1913/--/-- 8 - igor stravinsky's ballet the rite of spring causes a scandal at the paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 8 - indian poet rabindranath tagore wins the nobel prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 8 - king george i of greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by constantine i
1913/--/-- 8 - marcel proust writes the first volume of remembrance of things past.
1913/--/-- 8 - medical missionary albert schweitzer builds a hospital at lambarene in africa.
1913/--/-- 8 - russian revolutionary joseph stalin is exiled to siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 8 - samuel goldwyn founds his first movie company with jesse lasky and cecil b. de mille.
1913/--/-- 8 - socialists sidney and beatrice webb found the political journal the new statesman.
1913/--/-- 8 - the constructivism art movement begins in russia.
1913/--/-- 8 - the island of crete is united with greece.
1913/--/-- 8 - the second balkan war begins with a bulgarian attack on serbia.
1913/--/-- 8 - victoriano huerta leads a military coup in mexico; president francisco madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 8 - wilson is inaugurated as the 28th u.s. president; marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 8 - woodrow wilson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1913/10/-- 8 - world series nl new york (1) al philadelphia (4)
1914/--/-- 9 - a british expedition led by ernest shackleton is marooned in the antarctic.
1914/--/-- 9 - a german fleet defeats the british at coronel but is decimated at the falklands.
1914/--/-- 9 - archduke franz ferdinand is assassinated in sarajevo, precipitating world war i.
1914/--/-- 9 - austrian forces invade serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 9 - black composer w.c. handy writes the st. louis blues.
1914/--/-- 9 - charlie chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 9 - france, russia and britain (the allies) are at war with germany and austria-hungary.
1914/--/-- 9 - george bernard shaw's play pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 9 - german forces invade belgium and france but are halted at the marne.
1914/--/-- 9 - german submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 9 - japan joins the allies and captures the german base of tsingtao in china.
1914/--/-- 9 - mack sennett produces comedy films starring the keystone kops.
1914/--/-- 9 - parisian couturier coco chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 9 - president wilson declares u.s. neutrality in world war i.
1914/--/-- 9 - russian forces invade east prussia but are defeated at the battle of tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 9 - the panama canal is completed, connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans.
1914/--/-- 9 - turkey declares war on the allies; britain annexes turkish cyprus.
1914/--/-- 9 - u.s. marines land at veracruz in mexico; president huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 9 - world war i begins
1914/10/-- 9 - world series nl boston (4) al philadelphia (0)
1915/--/-- 10 - a german submarine torpedoes the british liner lusitania; 124 americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 10 - albert einstein formulates his general theory of relativity.
1915/--/-- 10 - anglo-french forces land at gallipoli in an attempt to force turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 10 - austrian writer franz kafka publishes the metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 10 - d. w. griffith's movie the birth of a nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 10 - emiliano zapata and pancho villa lead rebellions against venustiano carranza in mexico.
1915/--/-- 10 - english author somerset maugham publishes of human bondage.
1915/--/-- 10 - german zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on britain.
1915/--/-- 10 - italy joins the allies and invades austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 10 - president wilson recognizes the mexican government of venustiano carranza.
1915/--/-- 10 - serbia is overrun by the combined forces of austria, germany and bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 10 - the anzacs (australian and new zealand army corps) fight at gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 10 - the dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 10 - the germans use poison gas for the first time at ypres on the western front.
1915/--/-- 10 - u.s. marines land in haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 10 - war poet rupert brooke's 1914 and other poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/01/31 10 *** upchurch, ahile knox [2nd cousin] - born to upchurch, william fox and parmley, rachel (upchurch) albany, ky
1915/10/-- 10 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al boston (4)
1916/--/-- 11 - albert einstein proposes general theory of relativity
1916/--/-- 11 - allied forces withdraw from gallipoli after strong turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 11 - american poet carl sandburg publishes his first book chicago poems.
1916/--/-- 11 - british forces assault the german line at the somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 11 - german assaults at verdun are repulsed by the french with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 11 - james joyce publishes a portrait of the artist as a young man.
1916/--/-- 11 - jeannette rankin becomes the first female member of u.s. house of representatives.
1916/--/-- 11 - lloyd george becomes prime minister of britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 11 - margaret sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 11 - north sea storms flood lowlands in the netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 11 - t. tzara dada
1916/--/-- 11 - the british and german fleets clash at the battle of jutland.
1916/--/-- 11 - the easter rising in dublin is suppressed within a week by the british.
1916/--/-- 11 - the russian brusilov offensive meets with success on the eastern front.
1916/--/-- 11 - the trans-siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 11 - u.s. marines land in santo domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 11 - u.s. troops under pershing invade mexico in retaliation for raids by pancho villa.
1916/04/14 11 *** duvall, myrtle "myrtie" (grider) [mother] - died central grove cem. clinton county ky
1916/10/-- 11 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al boston (4)
1917/--/-- 12 - adoption of the convoy system reduces allied losses to german submarines.
1917/--/-- 12 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot publishes the love song of j. alfred prufrock.
1917/--/-- 12 - art critic and writer guillaume apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 12 - astrophysicist karl schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 12 - blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 12 - british forces attack the germans in the third battle of ypres.
1917/--/-- 12 - british forces under allenby capture jerusalem and bagdhad from the turks.
1917/--/-- 12 - dutch artists theo van doesburg and piet mondrian found the magazine de stijl.
1917/--/-- 12 - english composer gustav holst completes the planets.
1917/--/-- 12 - english humorist p.g. wodehouse creates bertie wooster and his butler jeeves.
1917/--/-- 12 - germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 12 - italian forces are defeated by austria at the battle of caporetto.
1917/--/-- 12 - russian revolutions: communist u.s.s.r. formed
1917/--/-- 12 - selective service act creates draft
1917/--/-- 12 - swiss psychiatrist carl jung publishes the psychology of the unconscious.
1917/--/-- 12 - t.e. lawrence (lawrence of arabia) leads the arab revolt against the turks.
1917/--/-- 12 - the balfour declaration endorses a jewish national homeland in palestine.
1917/--/-- 12 - the germans and the bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at brest-litovsk.
1917/--/-- 12 - the germans help lenin return to russia from exile in switzerland.
1917/--/-- 12 - the jones act gives all puerto ricans the right to u.s. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 12 - the russian revolution begins; emperor nicholas ii abdicates.
1917/--/-- 12 - the u.s. purchases the virgin islands from denmark.
1917/--/-- 12 - the united states declares war on germany.
1917/--/-- 12 - the zimmermann note proposing a secret mexican alliance with germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 12 - the disastrous nivelle offensive leads to mutinies in the french army.
1917/--/-- 12 - the earliest jazz recordings are made in new york city.
1917/--/-- 12 - the first pulitzer prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 12 - the provisional kerensky government is deposed; bolsheviks seize power in russia.
1917/10/-- 12 - world series nl new york (2) al chicago (4)
1917/10/14 12 *** braswell, artha (white) [2nd cousin] - born to braswell, leander a. and parmley, eliza lizzie (braswell)
1918/--/-- 13 - advances by french, british and american armies force a general german retreat.
1918/--/-- 13 - american astronomer harlow shapley discovers the dimensions of the milky way.
1918/--/-- 13 - american author booth tarkington writes the magnificent ambersons.
1918/--/-- 13 - american forcesunder pershing help to stem the german offensive.
1918/--/-- 13 - an airmail service begins among new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c.
1918/--/-- 13 - an influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 13 - austria, poland and czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of world war i.
1918/--/-- 13 - bloomsbury group member lytton strachey publishes eminent victorians.
1918/--/-- 13 - bolshevik leader leon trotsky organizes the red army.
1918/--/-- 13 - civil war breaks out between the red and white russian armies.
1918/--/-- 13 - french composer erik satie writes socrate.
1918/--/-- 13 - german air ace manfred von richthofen (the red baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 13 - nicholas ii, the last emperor of russia, and his family are executed by the bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 13 - revolution breaks out in germany; emperor william ii flees to the netherlands.
1918/--/-- 13 - shapley determines sun is part of milky way galaxy
1918/--/-- 13 - the germans renew their assault on the western front in the ludendorff offensive.
1918/--/-- 13 - the weimar republic negotiates an armistice for germany, ending world war i.
1918/--/-- 13 - the world's largest telescope is installed at mount wilson observatory.
1918/--/-- 13 - women over 30 win the vote in britain.
1918/10/-- 13 - world series nl chicago (2) al boston (4)
1919/--/-- 14 - boxer jack dempsey knocks out jess willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 14 - british troops massacre demonstrators at amritsar in india.
1919/--/-- 14 - english aviators alcock and brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 14 - french tennis star suzanne lenglen wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 14 - george gershwin composes his first hit song swanee.
1919/--/-- 14 - german communist rosa luxemburg is murdered after the sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 14 - italian leader benito mussolini organizes his fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 14 - jan smuts succeeds louis botha as prime minister of south africa.
1919/--/-- 14 - lady astor becomes the first woman member of the british house of commons.
1919/--/-- 14 - league of nations
1919/--/-- 14 - mexican revolutionary emiliano zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 14 - russian-american anarchist emma goldman is deported to the soviet union.
1919/--/-- 14 - the bauhaus school of design is founded in germany by walter gropius.
1919/--/-- 14 - the chicago white sox conspire to fix the baseball world series.
1919/--/-- 14 - the german fleet is scuttled at scapa flow in the orkney islands.
1919/--/-- 14 - the league of nations is formed with geneva in switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 14 - the paris peace conference opens at versailles.
1919/--/-- 14 - the polish-soviet war begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 14 - the radio corporation of america (rca) is formed.
1919/--/-- 14 - versailles peace treaty
1919/--/-- 14 - world war i ends
1919/10/-- 14 - world series nl cincinnati (5) al chicago (3)
1920/--/-- 15 - 18th amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 15 - 19th amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 15 - a home rule bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern ireland.
1920/--/-- 15 - admiral miklos horthy is appointed regent of hungary.
1920/--/-- 15 - adolf hitler forms the national socialist german workers' (nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 15 - american novelist sinclair lewis publishes main street.
1920/--/-- 15 - american tennis star bill tilden wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 15 - arturo alessandri becomes president of chile.
1920/--/-- 15 - british east africa becomes a crown colony as kenya.
1920/--/-- 15 - chaim weizmann is named president of the world zionist organization.
1920/--/-- 15 - dutch artist piet mondrian paints the composition with red, yellow and blue.
1920/--/-- 15 - french art deco glassmaker rene lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 15 - german east africa is transferred to british control as tanganyika (now tanzania).
1920/--/-- 15 - mahatma gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against british rule in india.
1920/--/-- 15 - mexican president venustiano carranza is deposed and killed by alvaro obregon.
1920/--/-- 15 - mystery writer agatha christie publishes her first hercule poirot story.
1920/--/-- 15 - russian artist aleksandr rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 15 - the 18th amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the u.s.
1920/--/-- 15 - the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 15 - the russian civil war ends with victory for the bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 15 - the u.s. senate votes against joining the league of nations.
1920/10/-- 15 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al cleveland (5)
1921/--/-- 16 - alexander rules the new kingdom of serbs, croats and slovenes.
1921/--/-- 16 - american anarchists nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 16 - berber tribes under abd el-krim attack garrisons in spanish morocco.
1921/--/-- 16 - french cubist artist fernand leger paints three women.
1921/--/-- 16 - german surrealist artist max ernst paints l'elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 16 - harding is inaugurated as the 29th u.s. president; coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 16 - japanese premier hara takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 16 - latin lover rudolph valentino stars in the silent film the sheik.
1921/--/-- 16 - luigi pirandello's play six characters in search of an author is produced.
1921/--/-- 16 - mexican artist diego rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary mexican life.
1921/--/-- 16 - the british broadcasting corporation (bbc) is created by royal charter.
1921/--/-- 16 - the irish free state becomes a self-governing dominion of britain.
1921/--/-- 16 - the reparations commission fixes germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 16 - w. l. mackenzie king is elected prime minister of canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 16 - warren g. harding (republican) becomes president of the united states
1921/03/20 16 *** pierce, elizabeth ann (parmley) [great aunt] - died albany cemetery, albany, kentucky
1921/10/-- 16 - world series nl new york (5) al new york (3)
1922/--/-- 17 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot writes the waste land.
1922/--/-- 17 - constantine i abdicates as king of greece; is succeeded by george ii.
1922/--/-- 17 - dewitt wallace launches reader's digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 17 - egypt achieves independence from britain and becomes a monarchy under fuad i.
1922/--/-- 17 - emily post publishes etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home.
1922/--/-- 17 - english egyptologist howard carter excavates tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 17 - english composer william walton composes facade.
1922/--/-- 17 - explorer roy chapman andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 17 - irish poet and novelist james joyce publishes ulysses.
1922/--/-- 17 - irish revolutionary statesman michael collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 17 - kemal ataturk's attempts to restore turkish territory leads to the chanak crisis.
1922/--/-- 17 - mahatma gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in india.
1922/--/-- 17 - robert flaherty produces the first major film documentary nanook of the north.
1922/--/-- 17 - the fascists march on rome; king victor emmanuel iii names mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 17 - william t. cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the irish free state.
1922/10/-- 17 - world series nl new york (4) al new york (0)
1923/--/-- 18 - "king" oliver's creole jazz band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 18 - adolf hitler's coup d'etat in munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 18 - aircraft designer willy messerschmitt opens a factory in germany.
1923/--/-- 18 - american poet e. e. cummings writes the novel the enormous room.
1923/--/-- 18 - briton hadden and henry r. luce found the weekly newsmagazine time.
1923/--/-- 18 - calvin coolidge (republican) becomes president of the united states
1923/--/-- 18 - child violinist yehudi menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 18 - filmmaker cecil b. de mille directs the biblical epic the ten commandments.
1923/--/-- 18 - french and belgian troops occupy the ruhr to enforce german war reparations.
1923/--/-- 18 - general miguel primo de rivera rules as dictator of spain.
1923/--/-- 18 - irish poet william butler yeats wins the nobel prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 18 - italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 18 - jewish philosopher martin buber publishes ich und du (i and thou).
1923/--/-- 18 - physicist hermann oberth publishes the rocket into planetary space.
1923/--/-- 18 - spanish engineer juan de la cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 18 - stanley baldwin becomes conservative prime minister of britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 18 - the treaty of lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern turkey.
1923/--/-- 18 - tokyo and yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 18 - turkey is declared a republic; ataturk kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 18 - vladimir zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 18 - warren g. harding dies; calvin coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th u.s. president.
1923/10/-- 18 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1924/--/-- 19 - adolf hitler publishes his nazi political tract mein kampf (my battle).
1924/--/-- 19 - arab leader ibn saud drives the hashimites from mecca.
1924/--/-- 19 - english novelist e.m. forster publishes a passage to india.
1924/--/-- 19 - french physicist louis de broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 19 - german novelist thomas mann publishes the magic mountain.
1924/--/-- 19 - j. edgar hoover is appointed director of the bureau of investigation (renamed the fbi).
1924/--/-- 19 - ramsay macdonald forms the first labour government in britain.
1924/--/-- 19 - schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 19 - soviet leader lenin dies; new leader joseph stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 19 - the boston bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 19 - the military declare a republic in greece; king george ii is exiled.
1924/--/-- 19 - u.s. congress investigates suspicious dealings in the teapot dome scandal.
1924/10/-- 19 - world series nl new york (3) al washington (4)
1925/--/-- 20 - ahmed zogu proclaims albania a monarchy and rules as king zog.
1925/--/-- 20 - american writer f. scott fitzgerald publishes the great gatsby.
1925/--/-- 20 - american writer john dos passos publishes manhattan transfer.
1925/--/-- 20 - astronomer edwin hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 20 - automaker walter p. chrysler founds the chrysler corporation.
1925/--/-- 20 - black american dancer josephine baker stars in la revue negre in paris.
1925/--/-- 20 - clarence birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 20 - friedrich ebert dies; paul von hindenburg becomes president of the german republic.
1925/--/-- 20 - john t. scopes is tried in tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 20 - reza shah pahlavi rules as shah of iran.
1925/--/-- 20 - russian filmmaker sergei eisenstein directs the battleship potemkin.
1925/--/-- 20 - swiss-born artist paul klee paints fish magic.
1925/--/-- 20 - the locarno pact finalizes the treaties between the world war i protagonists.
1925/--/-- 20 - the new yorker magazine is founded in new york city.
1925/--/-- 20 - the all-black revue runnin' wild introduces the charleston dance craze.
1925/10/-- 20 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al washington (3)
1926/--/-- 21 - american artist georgia o'keeffe paints her flower portrait black iris.
1926/--/-- 21 - american golfer bobby jones wins the u.s. open and the british open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 21 - american physicist robert goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 21 - antonio oscar de fragoso carmona becomes president after a military coup in portugal.
1926/--/-- 21 - chiang kai-shek organizes the northern expedition to unite china.
1926/--/-- 21 - eamon de valera organizes the fianna fail party in the republic of ireland.
1926/--/-- 21 - english author a.a. milne writes the children's book winnie-the-pooh.
1926/--/-- 21 - french troops in morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by abd el-krim.
1926/--/-- 21 - germany is admitted to the league of nations.
1926/--/-- 21 - hirohito becomes emperor of japan.
1926/--/-- 21 - nobile, amundsen and ellsworth pilot the airship norge over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 21 - richard e. byrd and floyd bennett make the first airplane flight over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 21 - russian composer dmitry shostakovich premiers his first symphony.
1926/--/-- 21 - the general strike breaks out in britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 21 - the harlem globetrotters basketball team is organized in chicago.
1926/--/-- 21 - u.s. marines land in nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/10/-- 21 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1927/--/-- 22 - american dancer isadora duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 22 - american writer thornton wilder publishes the bridge of san luis rey.
1927/--/-- 22 - baseball player babe ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the new york yankees.
1927/--/-- 22 - blackface singer al jolson appears in the first sound motion picture the jazz singer.
1927/--/-- 22 - charles lindbergh flies solo nonstop from new york to paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 22 - civil war in china
1927/--/-- 22 - comedy team laurel and hardy appear in their first film putting pants on philip.
1927/--/-- 22 - dancer martha graham opens her first dance studio in new york city.
1927/--/-- 22 - duke ellington's jazz band stars at harlem's cotton club in new york city.
1927/--/-- 22 - english novelist virginia woolf writes to the lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 22 - finnish architect alvar aalto designs the turun sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 22 - georges lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 22 - german filmmaker fritz lang directs the futuristic film metropolis.
1927/--/-- 22 - german-swiss author hermann hesse publishes steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 22 - helen newington wills wins the wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 22 - lindbergh crosses atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 22 - the iron guard fascist organization is founded in romania.
1927/10/-- 22 - world series nl pittsburgh (0) al new york (4)
1928/--/-- 23 - amelia earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the atlantic.
1928/--/-- 23 - american anthropologist margaret mead publishes coming of age in samoa.
1928/--/-- 23 - american comedy team amos 'n' andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 23 - american composer virgil thomson writes the opera four saints in three acts.
1928/--/-- 23 - arturo toscanini is made conductor of the new york philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 23 - ben hecht and charles macarthur's play the front page is produced.
1928/--/-- 23 - bertolt brecht and kurt weill collaborate on the play the threepenny opera.
1928/--/-- 23 - british bacteriologist alexander fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 23 - chiang kai-shek captures peking; the kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 23 - english novelist evelyn waugh publishes decline and fall.
1928/--/-- 23 - english physicist paul dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 23 - french composer maurice ravel composes the ballet bolero.
1928/--/-- 23 - heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 23 - luis bunuel and salvador dali collaborate on the surrealist film un chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 23 - spanish poet federico garcia lorca publishes gypsy ballads.
1928/--/-- 23 - the chaco war breaks out between bolivia and paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 23 - the kellog-briand pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 23 - the first five-year plan for economic reform begins in the soviet union.
1928/--/-- 23 - walt disney's mickey mouse appears in steamboat willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/10/-- 23 - world series nl st. louis (0) al new york (4)
1929/--/-- 24 - alexander institutes absolute rule as king of yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 24 - american explorer richard e. byrd flies over the south pole.
1929/--/-- 24 - american novelist william faulkner publishes the sound and the fury.
1929/--/-- 24 - british poet robert graves publishes his war memoir goodbye to all that.
1929/--/-- 24 - erich maria remarque publishes his war novel all quiet on the western front.
1929/--/-- 24 - ernest hemingway writes the war novel a farewell to arms.
1929/--/-- 24 - french artist and writer jean cocteau publishes les enfants terribles.
1929/--/-- 24 - heinrich himmler is appointed head of the ss, hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 24 - herbert c. hoover (republican) becomes president of the united states
1929/--/-- 24 - hoover is inaugurated as the 31st u.s. president; curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 24 - jews and arabs clash at the wailing wall in jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 24 - seven chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the st. valentine's day massacre.
1929/--/-- 24 - soviet leader joseph stalin exiles leon trotsky.
1929/--/-- 24 - stock market crashes
1929/--/-- 24 - the lateran treaty creates the independent state of the vatican city.
1929/--/-- 24 - the museum of modern art (moma) is founded in new york city.
1929/--/-- 24 - the wall street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 24 - the workers party of america is renamed the communist party of the united states.
1929/--/-- 24 - the first academy awards are presented; wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 24 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1930/--/-- 25 - american artist edward hopper paints early sunday morning.
1930/--/-- 25 - american astronomer clyde w. tombaugh discovers the planet pluto.
1930/--/-- 25 - american poet hart crane publishes the bridge.
1930/--/-- 25 - artist grant wood paints american gothic.
1930/--/-- 25 - british engineer frank whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 25 - carol ii is proclaimed king of romania.
1930/--/-- 25 - dashiell hammett publishes the detective novel the maltese falcon.
1930/--/-- 25 - english-born american writer w. h. auden publishes his poems.
1930/--/-- 25 - getulio vargas is appointed president of brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 25 - haile selassie is declared emperor of ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 25 - marlene dietrich stars in josef von sternberg's film the blue angel.
1930/--/-- 25 - noel coward's play private lives is produced in london.
1930/--/-- 25 - the british airship r101 crashes in france.
1930/--/-- 25 - the city of constantinople is re-named istanbul.
1930/--/-- 25 - vannevar bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 25 - worldwide depression begins
1930/10/-- 25 - world series nl st. louis (2) al philadelphia (4)
1931/--/-- 26 - american cartoonist chester gould creates the adventure comic strip dick tracy.
1931/--/-- 26 - american journalist and writer damon runyon publishes guys and dolls.
1931/--/-- 26 - american writer pearl buck publishes the good earth.
1931/--/-- 26 - auguste piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 26 - ben shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the sacco-vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 26 - chicago gangster al capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 26 - explorer george hubert wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 26 - japanese forces occupy manchuria.
1931/--/-- 26 - lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 26 - organic chemist w. h. carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 26 - radio astronomy begins when karl jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 26 - spain is declared a republic; king alfonso xiii abdicates.
1931/--/-- 26 - the empire state building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 26 - the star-spangled banner becomes the u.s. national anthem.
1931/10/-- 26 - world series nl st. louis (4) al philadelphia (3)
1932/--/-- 27 - american physicist carl d. anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 27 - american sculptor alexander calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 27 - american southern author erskine caldwell publishes tobacco road.
1932/--/-- 27 - antonio de oliveira salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of portugal.
1932/--/-- 27 - arab leader ibn saud founds the kingdom of saudi arabia.
1932/--/-- 27 - british author aldous huxley publishes brave new world.
1932/--/-- 27 - charles lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 27 - eamon de valera is elected president of the republic of ireland.
1932/--/-- 27 - engelbert dollfuss is elected chancellor of austria.
1932/--/-- 27 - english physicist james chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 27 - presidential nominee franklin d. roosevelt pledges a new deal.
1932/--/-- 27 - radio city music hall opens in new york city's rockefeller center.
1932/--/-- 27 - revolution in siam (thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 27 - sir oswald mosley founds the british union of fascists.
1932/--/-- 27 - the bonus army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in washington, d.c.
1932/--/-- 27 - the royal shakespeare theater opens at stratford-on-avon, england.
1932/--/-- 27 - the first particle accelerator is built at the cavendish laboratory in england.
1932/10/-- 27 - world series nl chicago (0) al new york (4)
1933/--/-- 28 - a fossilized skull of the prehistoric steinheim man is found in germany.
1933/--/-- 28 - actor charles laughton stars in the film the private life of henry viii.
1933/--/-- 28 - busby berkeley choreographs the dances for the film gold diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 28 - dancers fred astaire and ginger rogers star in the film flying down to rio.
1933/--/-- 28 - edwin armstrong invents frequency modulation (fm) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 28 - fiorello la guardia is elected mayor of new york city for the first time.
1933/--/-- 28 - frances perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in u.s. history.
1933/--/-- 28 - franklin d. roosevelt (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1933/--/-- 28 - french novelist and political activist andre malraux publishes man's fate.
1933/--/-- 28 - fulgencio batista leads a military coup against gerardo machado y morales in cuba.
1933/--/-- 28 - jimmy and tommy dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 28 - joseph goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the nazi party.
1933/--/-- 28 - mae west stars in the films she done him wrong and i'm no angel.
1933/--/-- 28 - norwegian fascist vidkun quisling founds the national unity party.
1933/--/-- 28 - president paul von hindenburg names adolf hitler as chancellor of germany.
1933/--/-- 28 - roosevelt begins "new deal"
1933/--/-- 28 - roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd u.s. president; garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 28 - the 21st amendment ends the prohibition era in the u.s.
1933/--/-- 28 - the marx brothers star in the classic comedy film duck soup.
1933/--/-- 28 - the national recovery administration (nra) is launched by president roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 28 - the nazis erect the first concentration camps in germany.
1933/--/-- 28 - the public works administration (pwa) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 28 - the reichstag fire gives the nazis a pretext for outlawing the german communist party.
1933/--/-- 28 - the stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in france.
1933/05/17 28 *** grider, golda (thrasher) - died central grove cem. clinton county ky
1933/10/-- 28 - world series nl new york (4) al washington (1)
in 1904 transportation was by:
foot
horse
bicycle
train
steamboat
balloon
by 1933 transportation was by:
car & bus
diesel ship
propeller airplane
in addition.
by 1933 transportation by:
horse
had been discontinued.
in 1904 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
telephone
in 1904 food preparation was by:
wood
by 1933 food preparation was by:
gas
refrigeration
in addition.
in 1904 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1904 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1904 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
machine guns
submarine
iron clad ships
mines
by 1933 war making was by:
tank
tnt
chemical agents
aeroplane
in addition.
by 1933 war making by:
calvary
had been discontinued.
in 1904 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
by 1933 navigation was by:
radio signals
in addition.
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