...Date... AGE Event
1917/--/-- -1 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- -1 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- -1 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- -1 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- -1 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- -1 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- -1 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- -1 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- -1 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- -1 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- -1 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- -1 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- -1 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- -1 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- -1 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- -1 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- -1 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- -1 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- -1 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- -1 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- -1 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- -1 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/01/27 -1 *** Allen, Vera Ruth [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1917/02/14 -1 *** Allen, William Paul [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Griffin, Nora Lorene (Allen)
1917/04/30 0 *** Zachary, Wille Clyde - Born to Zachary, Thomas Marion and Griffin, Sarah Lou Ella (Zachary)
1917/06/22 0 *** Lee, Mary Emiline (Griffin) [Grandmother] - Died Albany, Kentucky Peolia Cemetery
1917/10/-- 0 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1918/--/-- 0 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 0 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 0 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 0 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 0 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 0 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 0 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 0 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 0 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 0 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 0 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 0 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 0 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 0 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 0 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 0 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 0 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 0 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 0 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/10/-- 1 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
1919/--/-- 1 - Boxer Jack Dempsey knocks out Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 1 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1919/--/-- 1 - English aviators Alcock and Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 1 - French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 1 - George Gershwin composes his first hit song Swanee.
1919/--/-- 1 - German communist Rosa Luxemburg is murdered after the Sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 1 - Italian leader Benito Mussolini organizes his Fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 1 - Jan Smuts succeeds Louis Botha as prime minister of South Africa.
1919/--/-- 1 - Lady Astor becomes the first woman member of the British House of Commons.
1919/--/-- 1 - League of Nations
1919/--/-- 1 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 1 - Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to the Soviet Union.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Bauhaus school of design is founded in Germany by Walter Gropius.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Chicago White Sox conspire to fix the baseball World Series.
1919/--/-- 1 - The German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1919/--/-- 1 - The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Polish-Soviet War begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
1919/--/-- 1 - Versailles Peace Treaty
1919/--/-- 1 - World War I ends
1919/10/-- 2 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (5) AL CHICAGO (3)
1919/11/28 2 *** Cummings, Odell Ansolem & Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings) [1st cousin] - Married
1920/--/-- 2 - 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 2 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 2 - A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
1920/--/-- 2 - Admiral Miklos Horthy is appointed regent of Hungary.
1920/--/-- 2 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 2 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
1920/--/-- 2 - American tennis star Bill Tilden wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 2 - Arturo Alessandri becomes president of Chile.
1920/--/-- 2 - British East Africa becomes a crown colony as Kenya.
1920/--/-- 2 - Chaim Weizmann is named president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920/--/-- 2 - Dutch artist Piet Mondrian paints the Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
1920/--/-- 2 - French Art Deco glassmaker Rene Lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 2 - German East Africa is transferred to British control as Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
1920/--/-- 2 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British rule in India.
1920/--/-- 2 - Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is deposed and killed by Alvaro Obregon.
1920/--/-- 2 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first Hercule Poirot story.
1920/--/-- 2 - Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 2 - The 18th Amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the U.S.
1920/--/-- 2 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 2 - The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 2 - The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920/03/26 2 *** Allen, James Thomas [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Griffin, Nora Lorene (Allen)
1920/10/-- 3 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL CLEVELAND (5)
1920/10/31 3 *** Cummings, Margaret Nell (Claborn) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Cummings, Odell Ansolem and Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings)
1921/--/-- 3 - Alexander rules the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1921/--/-- 3 - American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 3 - Berber tribes under Abd el-Krim attack garrisons in Spanish Morocco.
1921/--/-- 3 - French cubist artist Fernand Leger paints Three Women.
1921/--/-- 3 - German surrealist artist Max Ernst paints L'Elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 3 - Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president; Coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 3 - Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 3 - Latin lover Rudolph Valentino stars in the silent film The Sheik.
1921/--/-- 3 - Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced.
1921/--/-- 3 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary Mexican life.
1921/--/-- 3 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created by Royal Charter.
1921/--/-- 3 - The Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Britain.
1921/--/-- 3 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 3 - W. L. MacKenzie King is elected prime minister of Canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 3 - Warren G. Harding (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1921/08/12 4 *** Harlan, Nora (Dishon) [1st cousin] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan)
1921/10/-- 4 - World Series NL NEW YORK (5) AL NEW YORK (3)
1921/10/02 4 *** Zachary, Velma Marie (Sanders) [Sister] - Born to Zachary, Thomas Marion and Griffin, Sarah Lou Ella (Zachary)
1922/--/-- 4 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot writes The Waste Land.
1922/--/-- 4 - Constantine I abdicates as king of Greece; is succeeded by George II.
1922/--/-- 4 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 4 - Egypt achieves independence from Britain and becomes a monarchy under Fuad I.
1922/--/-- 4 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home.
1922/--/-- 4 - English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 4 - English composer William Walton composes Facade.
1922/--/-- 4 - Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 4 - Irish poet and novelist James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
1922/--/-- 4 - Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 4 - Kemal Ataturk's attempts to restore Turkish territory leads to the Chanak Crisis.
1922/--/-- 4 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922/--/-- 4 - Robert Flaherty produces the first major film documentary Nanook of the North.
1922/--/-- 4 - The Fascists march on Rome; King Victor Emmanuel III names Mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 4 - William T. Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1922/02/01 4 *** Griffin, John Henry [Grandfather] - Died Albany, Kentucky Peolia Cemetery
1922/10/-- 5 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1923/--/-- 5 - "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 5 - Adolf Hitler's coup d'etat in Munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 5 - Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt opens a factory in Germany.
1923/--/-- 5 - American poet E. E. Cummings writes the novel The Enormous Room.
1923/--/-- 5 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine Time.
1923/--/-- 5 - Calvin Coolidge (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1923/--/-- 5 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 5 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
1923/--/-- 5 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to enforce German war reparations.
1923/--/-- 5 - General Miguel Primo de Rivera rules as dictator of Spain.
1923/--/-- 5 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 5 - Italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 5 - Jewish philosopher Martin Buber publishes Ich und Du (I and Thou).
1923/--/-- 5 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary Space.
1923/--/-- 5 - Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 5 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 5 - The Treaty of Lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern Turkey.
1923/--/-- 5 - Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 5 - Turkey is declared a republic; Ataturk Kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 5 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 5 - Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
1923/01/09 5 *** Cummings, Joe Frank [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Cummings, Odell Ansolem and Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings)
1923/10/-- 6 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1924/--/-- 6 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My Battle).
1924/--/-- 6 - Arab leader Ibn Saud drives the Hashimites from Mecca.
1924/--/-- 6 - English novelist E.M. Forster publishes A Passage To India.
1924/--/-- 6 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 6 - German novelist Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain.
1924/--/-- 6 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
1924/--/-- 6 - Ramsay MacDonald forms the first Labour government in Britain.
1924/--/-- 6 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 6 - Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 6 - The Boston Bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 6 - The military declare a republic in Greece; King George II is exiled.
1924/--/-- 6 - U.S. Congress investigates suspicious dealings in the Teapot Dome scandal.
1924/08/25 7 *** Allen, Geneva Mae (Davis) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Griffin, Nora Lorene (Allen)
1924/09/14 7 *** Cummings, Mary Elizabeth (Rogers) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Cummings, Odell Ansolem and Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings)
1924/10/-- 7 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL WASHINGTON (4)
1925/--/-- 7 - Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925/--/-- 7 - American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1925/--/-- 7 - American writer John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1925/--/-- 7 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 7 - Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation.
1925/--/-- 7 - Black American dancer Josephine Baker stars in La Revue negre in Paris.
1925/--/-- 7 - Clarence Birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 7 - Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
1925/--/-- 7 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 7 - Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as shah of Iran.
1925/--/-- 7 - Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin.
1925/--/-- 7 - Swiss-born artist Paul Klee paints Fish Magic.
1925/--/-- 7 - The Locarno Pact finalizes the treaties between the World War I protagonists.
1925/--/-- 7 - The New Yorker magazine is founded in New York City.
1925/--/-- 7 - The all-black revue Runnin' Wild introduces the Charleston dance craze.
1925/06/25 8 *** Harlan, Dora Elsie (Upchurch) [1st cousin] - Born to Harlan, John Thomas and Griffin, Ada Ermon (Harlan) born in Clinton County Kentucky on the 25th or maybe 21st June 1925
1925/10/-- 8 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL WASHINGTON (3)
1925/10/19 8 *** Ewing, Annie (Harlan) & Harlan, Arthur [1st cousin] - Married
1926/--/-- 8 - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe paints her flower portrait Black Iris.
1926/--/-- 8 - American golfer Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open and the British Open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 8 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 8 - Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona becomes president after a military coup in Portugal.
1926/--/-- 8 - Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926/--/-- 8 - Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926/--/-- 8 - English author A.A. Milne writes the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh.
1926/--/-- 8 - French troops in Morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by Abd el-Krim.
1926/--/-- 8 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926/--/-- 8 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1926/--/-- 8 - Nobile, Amundsen and Ellsworth pilot the airship Norge over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 8 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first airplane flight over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 8 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich premiers his First Symphony.
1926/--/-- 8 - The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 8 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is organized in Chicago.
1926/--/-- 8 - U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/02/11 8 *** Cummings, Johnny Anselum [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Cummings, Odell Ansolem and Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings)
1926/09/27 9 *** Harlan, Arthur David [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Harlan, Arthur and Ewing, Annie (Harlan)
1926/10/-- 9 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1927/--/-- 9 - American dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 9 - American writer Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
1927/--/-- 9 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.
1927/--/-- 9 - Blackface singer Al Jolson appears in the first sound motion picture The Jazz Singer.
1927/--/-- 9 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 9 - Civil war in China
1927/--/-- 9 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting Pants on Philip.
1927/--/-- 9 - Dancer Martha Graham opens her first dance studio in New York City.
1927/--/-- 9 - Duke Ellington's jazz band stars at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York City.
1927/--/-- 9 - English novelist Virginia Woolf writes To The Lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 9 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designs the Turun Sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 9 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 9 - German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927/--/-- 9 - German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse publishes Steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 9 - Helen Newington Wills wins the Wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 9 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 9 - The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927/10/-- 10 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1927/11/16 10 *** Cummings, Eula Mae Sloan "Poodle" (Norris) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Cummings, Odell Ansolem and Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings)
1928/--/-- 10 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 10 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 10 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 10 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 10 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 10 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 10 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 10 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 10 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 10 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 10 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 10 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 10 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 10 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 10 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 10 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 10 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 10 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 10 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/07/14 11 *** Harlan, John Howard [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Harlan, Arthur and Ewing, Annie (Harlan) Born at home in Clinton Co., Kentucky
1928/10/-- 11 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1929/--/-- 11 - Alexander institutes absolute rule as king of Yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 11 - American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1929/--/-- 11 - American novelist William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury.
1929/--/-- 11 - British poet Robert Graves publishes his war memoir Goodbye To All That.
1929/--/-- 11 - Erich Maria Remarque publishes his war novel All Quiet On the Western Front.
1929/--/-- 11 - Ernest Hemingway writes the war novel A Farewell To Arms.
1929/--/-- 11 - French artist and writer Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles.
1929/--/-- 11 - Heinrich Himmler is appointed head of the SS, Hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 11 - Herbert C. Hoover (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1929/--/-- 11 - Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st U.S. president; Curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 11 - Jews and Arabs clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 11 - Seven Chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
1929/--/-- 11 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
1929/--/-- 11 - Stock Market crashes
1929/--/-- 11 - The Lateran Treaty creates the independent state of the Vatican City.
1929/--/-- 11 - The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is founded in New York City.
1929/--/-- 11 - The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 11 - The Workers Party of America is renamed the Communist Party of the United States.
1929/--/-- 11 - The first Academy Awards are presented; Wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 12 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/--/-- 12 - American artist Edward Hopper paints Early Sunday Morning.
1930/--/-- 12 - American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.
1930/--/-- 12 - American poet Hart Crane publishes The Bridge.
1930/--/-- 12 - Artist Grant Wood paints American Gothic.
1930/--/-- 12 - British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 12 - Carol II is proclaimed king of Romania.
1930/--/-- 12 - Dashiell Hammett publishes the detective novel The Maltese Falcon.
1930/--/-- 12 - English-born American writer W. H. Auden publishes his Poems.
1930/--/-- 12 - Getulio Vargas is appointed president of Brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 12 - Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 12 - Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's film The Blue Angel.
1930/--/-- 12 - Noel Coward's play Private Lives is produced in London.
1930/--/-- 12 - The British airship R101 crashes in France.
1930/--/-- 12 - The city of Constantinople is re-named Istanbul.
1930/--/-- 12 - Vannevar Bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 12 - Worldwide depression begins
1930/04/22 12 *** Cummings, Bruce Tartar [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Cummings, Odell Ansolem and Griffin, Rosa Jane (Cummings)
1930/10/-- 13 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/11/01 13 *** Cross, Ermon (Harlan) & Harlan, Floyd [1st cousin] - Married Albany, KY
1930/11/01 13 *** Lawson, Ruby Ermon (Harlan) & Harlan, Luther [1st cousin] - Married Albany, KY
1931/--/-- 13 - American cartoonist Chester Gould creates the adventure comic strip Dick Tracy.
1931/--/-- 13 - American journalist and writer Damon Runyon publishes Guys and Dolls.
1931/--/-- 13 - American writer Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth.
1931/--/-- 13 - Auguste Piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 13 - Ben Shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 13 - Chicago gangster Al Capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 13 - Explorer George Hubert Wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the Arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 13 - Japanese forces occupy Manchuria.
1931/--/-- 13 - Lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 13 - Organic chemist W. H. Carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 13 - Radio astronomy begins when Karl Jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 13 - Spain is declared a republic; King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
1931/--/-- 13 - The Empire State Building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 13 - The Star-Spangled Banner becomes the U.S. national anthem.
1931/09/08 14 *** Harlan, Mary Josephine (Lowhorn) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Harlan, Floyd and Cross, Ermon (Harlan)
1931/09/24 14 *** Zachary, Wille Clyde - Died Glenwood cem. Liberty - Casey Co. KY
1931/10/-- 14 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (3)
In 1917 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
Propeller airplane
By 1931 Transportation was by:
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
in addition.
By 1931 Transportation by:
Horse
had been discontinued.
In 1917 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1917 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
By 1931 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Refrigeration
in addition.
In 1917 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1917 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1917 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
In 1917 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
By 1931 Navigation was by:
Radio Signals
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:58:10