...Date... AGE Event
1908/--/-- -1 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- -1 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- -1 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- -1 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- -1 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- -1 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- -1 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- -1 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- -1 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- -1 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- -1 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- -1 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- -1 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- -1 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- -1 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- -1 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- -1 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- -1 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/07/24 0 *** Wright, Jesse Leo - Born to Wright, William R. and Lyons, Mary Elizabeth (Wright)
1908/10/-- 0 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1908/12/09 0 *** Lyons, Minnie Stella (Upchurch) [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, Johnnie and Wynn, Melvina (Lyons)
1909/--/-- 0 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 0 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 0 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 0 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 0 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 0 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 0 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 0 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 0 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 0 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/02/05 0 *** Hopper, Jesse Laurel [1st cousin] - Born to Hopper, Thomas and Lyons, Addie (Hopper)
1909/08/15 1 *** Lyons, Willie Porter [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, Johnnie and Wynn, Melvina (Lyons)
1909/10/-- 1 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 1 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 1 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 1 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 1 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 1 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 1 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 1 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 1 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 1 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 1 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 1 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 1 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 1 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 1 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 1 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/01/23 1 *** Lester, Laura (Lyons) & Lyons, Edward [Uncle] - Married Mt. Pisgah
1910/05/-- 1 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/09/09 2 *** Wright, Exie (Anderson) [Sister] - Born to Wright, William R. and Lyons, Mary Elizabeth (Wright)
1910/10/-- 2 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1910/10/10 2 *** Manning, Mertie (Lyons) & Lyons, William Henry Harrison [Uncle] - Married
1911/--/-- 2 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 2 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 2 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 2 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 2 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 2 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 2 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 2 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 2 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 2 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 2 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 2 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 2 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 2 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 2 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 2 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 2 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 2 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/04/17 2 *** Hopper, Myrta (Easterly) [1st cousin] - Born to Hopper, Thomas and Lyons, Addie (Hopper)
1911/06/02 2 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 3 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/10/11 3 *** Lyons, Fairy [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, Issac
1912/--/-- 3 - American Indian Jim Thorpe wins the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 3 - American author Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1912/--/-- 3 - American writer Willa Cather publishes her first novel Alexander's Bridge.
1912/--/-- 3 - Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 3 - Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler publishes The Neurotic Constitution.
1912/--/-- 3 - British explorers under Scott reach the South Pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 3 - French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase.
1912/--/-- 3 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 3 - Morocco is divided between France and Spain after the second Moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 3 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 3 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 3 - Piltdown man is discovered in Britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 3 - Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky choreographs and dances in The Afternoon of the Faun.
1912/--/-- 3 - The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
1912/--/-- 3 - The liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 3 - Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the U.S. presidency under the Bull Moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 4 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL BOSTON (4)
1913/--/-- 4 - American poet Robert Frost publishes A Boy's Will.
1913/--/-- 4 - Bertrand Russell and A.E. Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica.
1913/--/-- 4 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 4 - English novelist D.H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers.
1913/--/-- 4 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913/--/-- 4 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring causes a scandal at the Paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 4 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 4 - King George I of Greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by Constantine I
1913/--/-- 4 - Marcel Proust writes the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
1913/--/-- 4 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at Lambarene in Africa.
1913/--/-- 4 - Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 4 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille.
1913/--/-- 4 - Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb found the political journal The New Statesman.
1913/--/-- 4 - The constructivism art movement begins in Russia.
1913/--/-- 4 - The island of Crete is united with Greece.
1913/--/-- 4 - The second Balkan War begins with a Bulgarian attack on Serbia.
1913/--/-- 4 - Victoriano Huerta leads a military coup in Mexico; president Francisco Madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 4 - Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president; Marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 4 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1913/01/18 4 *** Lyons, James Charlie [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, William Henry Harrison and Manning, Mertie (Lyons)
1913/06/24 4 *** Hopper, Ella Mae (Beck) [1st cousin] - Born to Hopper, Thomas and Lyons, Addie (Hopper)
1913/10/-- 5 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1914/--/-- 5 - A British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton is marooned in the Antarctic.
1914/--/-- 5 - A German fleet defeats the British at Coronel but is decimated at the Falklands.
1914/--/-- 5 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating World War I.
1914/--/-- 5 - Austrian forces invade Serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 5 - Black composer W.C. Handy writes the St. Louis Blues.
1914/--/-- 5 - Charlie Chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 5 - France, Russia and Britain (the Allies) are at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1914/--/-- 5 - George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 5 - German forces invade Belgium and France but are halted at the Marne.
1914/--/-- 5 - German submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on Allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 5 - Japan joins the Allies and captures the German base of Tsingtao in China.
1914/--/-- 5 - Mack Sennett produces comedy films starring the Keystone Kops.
1914/--/-- 5 - Parisian couturier Coco Chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 5 - President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality in World War I.
1914/--/-- 5 - Russian forces invade East Prussia but are defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 5 - The Panama Canal is completed, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1914/--/-- 5 - Turkey declares war on the Allies; Britain annexes Turkish Cyprus.
1914/--/-- 5 - U.S. Marines land at Veracruz in Mexico; President Huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 5 - World War I begins
1914/05/20 5 *** Lyons, Grady [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, William Henry Harrison and Manning, Mertie (Lyons) Cooper Wayne County Kentucky
1914/08/30 6 *** Wright, Frank Dyer [Brother] - Born to Wright, William R. and Lyons, Mary Elizabeth (Wright) Clinton County Kentucky
1914/10/-- 6 - World Series NL BOSTON (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (0)
1915/--/-- 6 - A German submarine torpedoes the British liner Lusitania; 124 Americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 6 - Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
1915/--/-- 6 - Anglo-French forces land at Gallipoli in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 6 - Austrian writer Franz Kafka publishes The Metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 6 - D. W. Griffith's movie The Birth of a Nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 6 - Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa lead rebellions against Venustiano Carranza in Mexico.
1915/--/-- 6 - English author Somerset Maugham publishes Of Human Bondage.
1915/--/-- 6 - German Zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on Britain.
1915/--/-- 6 - Italy joins the Allies and invades Austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 6 - President Wilson recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza.
1915/--/-- 6 - Serbia is overrun by the combined forces of Austria, Germany and Bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 6 - The Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) fight at Gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 6 - The Dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 6 - The Germans use poison gas for the first time at Ypres on the Western Front.
1915/--/-- 6 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 6 - War poet Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/10/-- 7 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/--/-- 7 - Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
1916/--/-- 7 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli after strong Turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 7 - American poet Carl Sandburg publishes his first book Chicago Poems.
1916/--/-- 7 - British forces assault the German line at the Somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 7 - German assaults at Verdun are repulsed by the French with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 7 - James Joyce publishes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1916/--/-- 7 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
1916/--/-- 7 - Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 7 - Margaret Sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 7 - North Sea storms flood lowlands in the Netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 7 - T. Tzara DADA
1916/--/-- 7 - The British and German fleets clash at the Battle of Jutland.
1916/--/-- 7 - The Easter Rising in Dublin is suppressed within a week by the British.
1916/--/-- 7 - The Russian Brusilov Offensive meets with success on the Eastern Front.
1916/--/-- 7 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 7 - U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 7 - U.S. troops under Pershing invade Mexico in retaliation for raids by Pancho Villa.
1916/02/04 7 *** Hopper, Ruby (Strickland, Hite) [1st cousin] - Born to Hopper, Thomas and Lyons, Addie (Hopper)
1916/10/-- 8 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1917/--/-- 8 *** Lyons, Robert [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, William Henry Harrison and Manning, Mertie (Lyons)
1917/--/-- 8 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- 8 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- 8 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 8 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 8 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 8 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- 8 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- 8 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- 8 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- 8 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- 8 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 8 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- 8 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- 8 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- 8 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- 8 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- 8 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- 8 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- 8 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- 8 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 8 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- 8 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- 8 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- 8 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 8 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- 8 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- 8 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 8 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/07/30 9 *** Lyons, Mary Lou (Vitatoe) [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, Johnnie
1917/10/-- 9 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1917/11/22 9 *** Hopper, John W. [1st cousin] - Born to Hopper, Thomas and Lyons, Addie (Hopper)
1918/--/-- 9 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 9 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 9 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 9 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 9 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 9 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 9 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 9 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 9 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 9 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 9 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 9 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 9 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 9 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 9 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 9 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 9 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 9 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 9 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/02/03 9 *** Bristow, Roy Prentice & Hopper, Lillie (Bristow, Davis) [1st cousin] - Married Married in Byrdstown, TN
1918/10/-- 10 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
1918/11/09 10 *** Wright, Roxie (Bertram) [Sister] - Born to Wright, William R. and Lyons, Mary Elizabeth (Wright)
1919/--/-- 10 - Boxer Jack Dempsey knocks out Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 10 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1919/--/-- 10 - English aviators Alcock and Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 10 - French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 10 - George Gershwin composes his first hit song Swanee.
1919/--/-- 10 - German communist Rosa Luxemburg is murdered after the Sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 10 - Italian leader Benito Mussolini organizes his Fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 10 - Jan Smuts succeeds Louis Botha as prime minister of South Africa.
1919/--/-- 10 - Lady Astor becomes the first woman member of the British House of Commons.
1919/--/-- 10 - League of Nations
1919/--/-- 10 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 10 - Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to the Soviet Union.
1919/--/-- 10 - The Bauhaus school of design is founded in Germany by Walter Gropius.
1919/--/-- 10 - The Chicago White Sox conspire to fix the baseball World Series.
1919/--/-- 10 - The German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1919/--/-- 10 - The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 10 - The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles.
1919/--/-- 10 - The Polish-Soviet War begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 10 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
1919/--/-- 10 - Versailles Peace Treaty
1919/--/-- 10 - World War I ends
1919/10/-- 11 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (5) AL CHICAGO (3)
1920/--/-- 11 - 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 11 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 11 - A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
1920/--/-- 11 - Admiral Miklos Horthy is appointed regent of Hungary.
1920/--/-- 11 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 11 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
1920/--/-- 11 - American tennis star Bill Tilden wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 11 - Arturo Alessandri becomes president of Chile.
1920/--/-- 11 - British East Africa becomes a crown colony as Kenya.
1920/--/-- 11 - Chaim Weizmann is named president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920/--/-- 11 - Dutch artist Piet Mondrian paints the Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
1920/--/-- 11 - French Art Deco glassmaker Rene Lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 11 - German East Africa is transferred to British control as Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
1920/--/-- 11 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British rule in India.
1920/--/-- 11 - Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is deposed and killed by Alvaro Obregon.
1920/--/-- 11 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first Hercule Poirot story.
1920/--/-- 11 - Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 11 - The 18th Amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the U.S.
1920/--/-- 11 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 11 - The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 11 - The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920/03/10 11 *** Bristow, Jesse Willard [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Roy Prentice and Hopper, Lillie (Bristow, Davis) Wayne County Kentucky
1920/10/-- 12 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL CLEVELAND (5)
1921/--/-- 12 *** Lyons, John [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, Johnnie Albany, Kentucky
1921/--/-- 12 - Alexander rules the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1921/--/-- 12 - American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 12 - Berber tribes under Abd el-Krim attack garrisons in Spanish Morocco.
1921/--/-- 12 - French cubist artist Fernand Leger paints Three Women.
1921/--/-- 12 - German surrealist artist Max Ernst paints L'Elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 12 - Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president; Coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 12 - Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 12 - Latin lover Rudolph Valentino stars in the silent film The Sheik.
1921/--/-- 12 - Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced.
1921/--/-- 12 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary Mexican life.
1921/--/-- 12 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created by Royal Charter.
1921/--/-- 12 - The Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Britain.
1921/--/-- 12 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 12 - W. L. MacKenzie King is elected prime minister of Canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 12 - Warren G. Harding (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1921/10/-- 13 - World Series NL NEW YORK (5) AL NEW YORK (3)
1922/--/-- 13 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot writes The Waste Land.
1922/--/-- 13 - Constantine I abdicates as king of Greece; is succeeded by George II.
1922/--/-- 13 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 13 - Egypt achieves independence from Britain and becomes a monarchy under Fuad I.
1922/--/-- 13 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home.
1922/--/-- 13 - English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 13 - English composer William Walton composes Facade.
1922/--/-- 13 - Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 13 - Irish poet and novelist James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
1922/--/-- 13 - Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 13 - Kemal Ataturk's attempts to restore Turkish territory leads to the Chanak Crisis.
1922/--/-- 13 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922/--/-- 13 - Robert Flaherty produces the first major film documentary Nanook of the North.
1922/--/-- 13 - The Fascists march on Rome; King Victor Emmanuel III names Mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 13 - William T. Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1922/03/17 13 *** Lyons, Johnnie [Uncle] - Died Flu and pneumonia Upchurch, Clinton County Kentucky Gap Creek Cemetery
1922/07/31 14 *** Wood, Mary Jane (Lyons) [Grandmother] - Died
1922/10/-- 14 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1923/--/-- 14 - "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 14 - Adolf Hitler's coup d'etat in Munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 14 - Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt opens a factory in Germany.
1923/--/-- 14 - American poet E. E. Cummings writes the novel The Enormous Room.
1923/--/-- 14 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine Time.
1923/--/-- 14 - Calvin Coolidge (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1923/--/-- 14 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 14 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
1923/--/-- 14 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to enforce German war reparations.
1923/--/-- 14 - General Miguel Primo de Rivera rules as dictator of Spain.
1923/--/-- 14 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 14 - Italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 14 - Jewish philosopher Martin Buber publishes Ich und Du (I and Thou).
1923/--/-- 14 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary Space.
1923/--/-- 14 - Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 14 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 14 - The Treaty of Lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern Turkey.
1923/--/-- 14 - Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 14 - Turkey is declared a republic; Ataturk Kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 14 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 14 - Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
1923/01/10 14 *** Lyons, William E. [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, William Henry Harrison and Manning, Mertie (Lyons)
1923/10/-- 15 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1924/--/-- 15 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My Battle).
1924/--/-- 15 - Arab leader Ibn Saud drives the Hashimites from Mecca.
1924/--/-- 15 - English novelist E.M. Forster publishes A Passage To India.
1924/--/-- 15 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 15 - German novelist Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain.
1924/--/-- 15 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
1924/--/-- 15 - Ramsay MacDonald forms the first Labour government in Britain.
1924/--/-- 15 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 15 - Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 15 - The Boston Bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 15 - The military declare a republic in Greece; King George II is exiled.
1924/--/-- 15 - U.S. Congress investigates suspicious dealings in the Teapot Dome scandal.
1924/10/-- 16 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL WASHINGTON (4)
1924/12/29 16 *** Lyons, Thomas Jr. [Great Uncle] - Died Lyons farm, Mt.Pisgah Wayne co. KY
1925/--/-- 16 - Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925/--/-- 16 - American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1925/--/-- 16 - American writer John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1925/--/-- 16 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 16 - Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation.
1925/--/-- 16 - Black American dancer Josephine Baker stars in La Revue negre in Paris.
1925/--/-- 16 - Clarence Birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 16 - Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
1925/--/-- 16 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 16 - Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as shah of Iran.
1925/--/-- 16 - Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin.
1925/--/-- 16 - Swiss-born artist Paul Klee paints Fish Magic.
1925/--/-- 16 - The Locarno Pact finalizes the treaties between the World War I protagonists.
1925/--/-- 16 - The New Yorker magazine is founded in New York City.
1925/--/-- 16 - The all-black revue Runnin' Wild introduces the Charleston dance craze.
1925/10/-- 17 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL WASHINGTON (3)
1925/10/20 17 *** Lyons, Kenneth Lee [1st cousin] - Born to Lyons, William Henry Harrison and Manning, Mertie (Lyons)
1925/12/09 17 *** Lyons, Kenneth Lee [1st cousin] - Died Lyons cem. Cooper Wayne co. KY
1926/--/-- 17 - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe paints her flower portrait Black Iris.
1926/--/-- 17 - American golfer Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open and the British Open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 17 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 17 - Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona becomes president after a military coup in Portugal.
1926/--/-- 17 - Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926/--/-- 17 - Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926/--/-- 17 - English author A.A. Milne writes the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh.
1926/--/-- 17 - French troops in Morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by Abd el-Krim.
1926/--/-- 17 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926/--/-- 17 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1926/--/-- 17 - Nobile, Amundsen and Ellsworth pilot the airship Norge over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 17 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first airplane flight over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 17 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich premiers his First Symphony.
1926/--/-- 17 - The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 17 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is organized in Chicago.
1926/--/-- 17 - U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/01/03 17 *** Lyons, Minnie Stella (Upchurch) [1st cousin] & Upchurch, Hiram Welby - Married
1926/10/-- 18 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1927/--/-- 18 - American dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 18 - American writer Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
1927/--/-- 18 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.
1927/--/-- 18 - Blackface singer Al Jolson appears in the first sound motion picture The Jazz Singer.
1927/--/-- 18 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 18 - Civil war in China
1927/--/-- 18 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting Pants on Philip.
1927/--/-- 18 - Dancer Martha Graham opens her first dance studio in New York City.
1927/--/-- 18 - Duke Ellington's jazz band stars at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York City.
1927/--/-- 18 - English novelist Virginia Woolf writes To The Lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 18 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designs the Turun Sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 18 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 18 - German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927/--/-- 18 - German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse publishes Steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 18 - Helen Newington Wills wins the Wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 18 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 18 - The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927/07/01 18 *** Upchurch, Ila Sue [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Upchurch, Hiram Welby and Lyons, Minnie Stella (Upchurch)
1927/10/-- 19 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1928/--/-- 19 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 19 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 19 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 19 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 19 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 19 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 19 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 19 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 19 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 19 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 19 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 19 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 19 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 19 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 19 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 19 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 19 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 19 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 19 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/05/25 19 *** Bristow, Larry Elton [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Roy Prentice and Hopper, Lillie (Bristow, Davis)
1928/07/19 19 *** Lyons, Mary Elizabeth (Wright) [Mother] - Died Shot and killed by her husband, William R. Wright Wayne County Kentucky Elk Spring Cem. Monticello KY
1928/07/19 19 *** Wright, Exie (Anderson) [Sister] - Wounded when shot twice by her father, William R. Wright
1928/07/19 19 *** Wright, Jesse Leo - Died Shot and killed by his father, William R. Wright Wayne County Kentucky Elk Spring Cem. Monticello KY
1928/07/19 19 *** Wright, John Porter [Brother] - Died Shot and killed by his father, William R. Wright Wayne County Kentucky Elk Spring Cem. Monticello KY
1928/07/19 19 *** Wright, William R. [Father] - Killed his wife and two sons and wounded his daughter.
1928/10/-- 20 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
In 1908 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
By 1928 Transportation was by:
Car & Bus
Propeller airplane
in addition.
In 1908 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1908 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
By 1928 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
in addition.
In 1908 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1908 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1908 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
By 1928 War Making was by:
tank
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
in addition.
By 1928 War Making by:
Calvary
had been discontinued.
In 1908 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
By 1928 Navigation was by:
Radio Signals
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 10-12-2025 12:43:43