...date... age event
1870/--/-- 0 *** speck, belle - born to speck, peggy
1870/--/-- 0 - american industrialist john d. rockefeller founds the standard oil company.
1870/--/-- 0 - french war minister leon gambetta escapes from besieged paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 0 - german archaeologist heinrich schliemann excavates the ancient city of troy.
1870/--/-- 0 - paraguayan dictator solano lopez dies, ending the war of the triple alliance.
1870/--/-- 0 - rome becomes the capital of the kingdom of italy.
1870/--/-- 0 - the franco-prussian war begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by bismark.
1870/--/-- 0 - the prussians defeat the french at sedan; napoleon iii is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 0 - the third republic is formed in france; a government of national defense is established.
1870/--/-- 0 - the city of miami is founded in florida.
1871/--/-- 1 - american explorer henry morton stanley finds dr. livingston in central africa.
1871/--/-- 1 - charles taze russell founds the jehovah's witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 1 - fire destroys one-third of the city of chicago.
1871/--/-- 1 - p.t barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 1 - the franco-prussian war ends; alsace and lorraine are ceded to germany.
1871/--/-- 1 - the french surrender to prussia incites the commune of paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 1 - the german empire is formally proclaimed at the palace of versailles.
1871/--/-- 1 - the paris commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 1 - trade unions legalized in britain
1872/--/-- 2 - american artist james mcneill whistler paints the portrait of the artist's mother.
1872/--/-- 2 - english author george eliot (mary anne evans) publishes middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 2 - indian leader kintpuash leaves the modoc reservation; the modoc wars begin.
1872/--/-- 2 - monet paints impression: sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 2 - photographer eadweard muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 2 - the challenger expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 2 - the cities of buda and pest unite to form budapest (the capital of hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 2 - the death of kamehameha v ends the kamehameha dynasty of hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 2 - the first woman impressionist artist berthe morisot paints the cradle.
1872/02/08 2 *** speck, hortense (hortie) [sister] - born to speck, peggy maxwell, franklin county, tennessee 1880 census of franklin county, tn, vol. 10, e.d. 88, page 3, line 29 peggy spe
1873/--/-- 3 - englishman maj. walter clopton wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 3 - french novelist jules verne publishes around the world in eighty days.
1873/--/-- 3 - the pacific scandal in canada causes the collapse of the conservative government.
1873/--/-- 3 - the panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the u.s.
1874/--/-- 4 *** speck, almer [sister] - born to speck, peggy
1874/--/-- 4 - benjamin disraeli becomes the conservative prime minister of britain.
1874/--/-- 4 - english author thomas hardy publishes far from the madding crowd.
1874/--/-- 4 - first impressionist exhibit in paris
1874/--/-- 4 - french impressionist artist pierre auguste renoir paints la loge (the box).
1874/--/-- 4 - the comanche, kiowa and other indian tribes attack adobe walls in texas.
1874/--/-- 4 - the greenback party advocates currency reform in the u.s.
1874/--/-- 4 - the first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in paris.
1875/--/-- 5 - american author mark twain publishes tom sawyer.
1875/--/-- 5 - britain buys suez canal shares from the bankrupt egyptian leader ismail pasha.
1875/--/-- 5 - charles stewart parnell begins movement for irish independence
1875/--/-- 5 - georges bizet's opera carmen is performed in paris.
1875/--/-- 5 - mary baker eddy, founder of christian science, publishes science and health.
1875/--/-- 5 - the bourbon monarchy is restored in spain under alfonso xii.
1876/--/-- 6 *** speck, gertrude [sister] - born to speck, peggy
1876/--/-- 6 - abd al-hamid ii assumes his rule as the last ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 6 - alexander graham bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 6 - alexander graham bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 6 - british philosopher herbert spencer begins publishing the principles of sociology.
1876/--/-- 6 - colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the union.
1876/--/-- 6 - general porfirio diaz seizes power as the dictator of mexico.
1876/--/-- 6 - german archaeologist heinrich schliemann excavates the ancient city of mycenae.
1876/--/-- 6 - impressionist artist alfred sisley paints flood at the port of marly.
1876/--/-- 6 - japan forces korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of china.
1876/--/-- 6 - johann strauss jr. composes his waltz the beautiful blue danube.
1876/--/-- 6 - national league founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 6 - queen victoria assumes the title of empress of india.
1876/--/-- 6 - sioux indians defeat general custer at the battle of little bighorn.
1876/--/-- 6 - sioux and cheyenne defeat custer at little big horn, montanna
1876/--/-- 6 - the bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of wagner's ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 6 - the u.s. centennial exposition of 1876 is held in fairmount park, philadelphia.
1877/--/-- 7 - britain annexes transvaal in south africa.
1877/--/-- 7 - chief joseph leads the nez perce tribe against the u.s. army.
1877/--/-- 7 - hayes is inaugurated as the 19th u.s. president; wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- 7 - italian astronomer giovanni schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on mars.
1877/--/-- 7 - nez perce leave idaho for canada
1877/--/-- 7 - rutherford b. hayes (republican) becomes president of the united states
1877/--/-- 7 - tchaikovsky's swan lake is performed by the bolshoi ballet in moscow.
1877/--/-- 7 - the all-england lawn tennis championship is played at wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- 7 - the japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by saigo takamori.
1877/--/-- 7 - thomas edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- 7 - turkish suppression of balkan nationalists leads to a new russo-turkish war.
1878/--/-- 8 *** speck, lon [brother] - born to speck, peggy
1878/--/-- 8 - ismail pasha presents cleopatra's needles to britain (1878) and the u.s. (1880).
1878/--/-- 8 - northern cheyenne escape indian territory
1878/--/-- 8 - serbia, montenegro and romania are granted independence from turkey.
1878/--/-- 8 - the congress of berlin reverses russian gains from the san stefano treaty.
1878/--/-- 8 - the d'oyly carte opera company performs gilbert and sullivan's h.m.s. pinafore.
1878/--/-- 8 - the russo-turkish war ends; the treaty of san stefano is imposed on turkey.
1878/--/-- 8 - the second anglo-afghan war begins.
1878/--/-- 8 - turkey's provinces of bosnia and hercegovina are placed under austrian administration.
1879/--/-- 9 - belgian king leopold ii sponsors henry morton stanley's expedition to the congo.
1879/--/-- 9 - cetewayo's zulus defeat the british at isandhlwana, but are beaten at ulundi.
1879/--/-- 9 - charles stewart parnell leads the home rule for ireland party.
1879/--/-- 9 - general roca defeats the patagonian indians, opening the pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 9 - impressionist artist edgar degas paints ballerina posing for a photograph.
1879/--/-- 9 - norwegian playwright henrik ibsen writes a doll's house.
1879/--/-- 9 - tawfiq pasha succeeds his father ismail pasha as khedive (viceroy) of egypt.
1879/--/-- 9 - territorial disputes lead to the war of the pacific between chile and peru.
1879/--/-- 9 - thomas edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 9 - thomas edison invents incandescent light
1880/--/-- 10 *** speck, orphia [brother] - born to speck, peggy
1880/--/-- 10 - american impressionist artist mary cassatt exhibits a woman in black at the opera.
1880/--/-- 10 - australian bushranger ned kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 10 - boer (afrikaner) uprisings begin against the british in transvaal, south africa.
1880/--/-- 10 - france annexes the pacific island of tahiti.
1880/--/-- 10 - french novelist emile zola writes nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 10 - german composer jacques offenbach writes the opera tales of hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 10 - gladstone succeeds disraeli as british prime minister.
1880/--/-- 10 - russian composer peter ilich tchaikovsky writes the 1812 overture.
1881/--/-- 11 - alexander ii is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in russia.
1881/--/-- 11 - chester a. arthur (republican) becomes president of the united states
1881/--/-- 11 - chester a. arthur is inaugurated as the 21st u.s. president.
1881/--/-- 11 - ferdinand de lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the panama canal.
1881/--/-- 11 - garfield is inaugurated as the 20th u.s. president; arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 11 - james a. garfield (republican) becomes president of the united states
1881/--/-- 11 - japanese statesman itagaki taisuke founds the jiyuto (liberal party).
1881/--/-- 11 - lillie langtry, mistress of the prince of wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 11 - president garfield is assassinated by charles j. guiteau.
1881/--/-- 11 - the sudanese under mahdi muhammad ahmad overthrow egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 11 - the first u.s. tennis championship is held in newport, r.i.
1882/--/-- 12 - a triple alliance is established between austria, italy and germany.
1882/--/-- 12 - edison's new york plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 12 - impressionist artist edouard manet completes the bar at the folies-bergere.
1882/--/-- 12 - japanese statesman okuma shigenobu founds the kaishinto, or progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 12 - the british take control of egypt, suppressing uprisings against tawfiq pasha.
1882/--/-- 12 - the u.s. begins to restrict immigration with the chinese exclusion acts.
1883/--/-- 13 - buffalo bill cody organizes his wild west show.
1883/--/-- 13 - civil service established
1883/--/-- 13 - cyrus h. k. curtis publishes the lady's home journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 13 - german philosopher frederich wilhelm nietzsche begins thus spake zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 13 - maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 13 - paul kruger becomes president of the boer republic of the transvaal in south africa.
1883/--/-- 13 - russian scientist tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 13 - the brooklyn bridge is completed in new york.
1883/--/-- 13 - the fabian society is founded in london to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 13 - the island volcano of krakatoa explodes in indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 13 - the first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in chicago by william lebaron jenney.
1884/--/-- 14 - 15 european nations partition africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 14 - american author mark twain publishes the adventures of huckleberry finn.
1884/--/-- 14 - belva lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a u.s. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 14 - german east africa is formed from rwanda, mozambique,tanzania and burundi.
1884/--/-- 14 - germany occupies south west africa (namibia).
1884/--/-- 14 - lewis e. waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 15 - boston symphony orchestra organizes its promenade concerts (the boston pops).
1885/--/-- 15 - cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd u.s. president; hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 15 - french chemist louis pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 15 - general gordon is killed by mahdist forces at the siege of khartoum in sudan.
1885/--/-- 15 - gottlieb daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 15 - grover cleveland (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1885/--/-- 15 - j. k. stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 15 - louis pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 15 - the congo free state (zaire) becomes the possession of king leopold ii of belgium.
1885/--/-- 15 - the indian national congress movement is founded in bombay.
1886/--/-- 16 - apache indian chief geronimo surrenders to general nelson miles.
1886/--/-- 16 - britain makes burma a province of india after winning the anglo-burma war.
1886/--/-- 16 - british prime minister gladstone introduces an unsuccessful home rule bill for ireland.
1886/--/-- 16 - french sculptor auguste rodin completes the kiss.
1886/--/-- 16 - gold is discovered in transvaal, south africa.
1886/--/-- 16 - haymarket square labor riot in chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 16 - jose balmaceda becomes president of chile.
1886/--/-- 16 - samuel gompers organizes the american federation of labor.
1886/--/-- 16 - the anglo-german agreement recognizes german control over tanganyika (tanzania).
1886/--/-- 16 - the statue of liberty is unveiled in new york harbor.
1887/--/-- 17 - arthur conan doyle publishes the first sherlock holmes story.
1887/--/-- 17 - france creates the union of indochina (most of modern day vietnam and kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 17 - the michelson-morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 18 - a patent is issued to american inventor john h. loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 18 - american inventor george eastman introduces the kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 18 - britain unites its caribbean colonies of trinidad and tobago.
1888/--/-- 18 - dutch artist vincent van gogh paints still life with sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 18 - eastman's kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 18 - jack the ripper murders seven women in london.
1888/--/-- 18 - russian composer nikolai rimsky-korsakov writes scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 18 - the national geographic magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 18 - william ii succeeds frederick iii as emperor of germany.
1889/--/-- 19 - benjamin harrison (republican) becomes president of the united states
1889/--/-- 19 - benjamin harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd u.s. president.
1889/--/-- 19 - crown prince rudolf of austria commits suicide at mayerling.
1889/--/-- 19 - german revolutionary rosa luxemburg is exiled in switzerland.
1889/--/-- 19 - gustave eiffel designs the eiffel tower for the paris exposition.
1889/--/-- 19 - japan's first prime minister ito hirobumi introduces the meiji constitution.
1889/--/-- 19 - montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 19 - montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 19 - north dakota and south dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 19 - north dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the union.
1889/--/-- 19 - pedro ii emperor of brazil is overthrown in a coup; brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 19 - south dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the union.
1889/--/-- 19 - washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1890/--/-- 20 - afl founded by s gompers
1890/--/-- 20 - american naval officer alfred mahan publishes the influence of sea power upon history.
1890/--/-- 20 - american psychologist william james publishes the principles of psychology.
1890/--/-- 20 - cecil rhodes becomes prime minister of the cape colony in south africa.
1890/--/-- 20 - claude debussy begins composing suite bergamasque, including clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 20 - dutch artist vincent van gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 20 - german chancellor otto von bismarck is dismissed by emperor william ii.
1890/--/-- 20 - idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 20 - idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 20 - indian poet rabindranath tagore publishes manasi (the mind's embodiment).
1890/--/-- 20 - photographer jacob riis documents new york's poor in how the other half lives.
1890/--/-- 20 - sherman antitrust act
1890/--/-- 20 - sioux indians are massacred at the battle of wounded knee.
1890/--/-- 20 - the british south africa company occupies zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the ndebele.
1890/--/-- 20 - the forth railway bridge is opened, replacing the brooklyn bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 20 - wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 20 - zanzibar becomes a british protectorate.
1891/--/-- 21 - anglo-irish author oscar wilde publishes his only novel the picture of dorian gray.
1891/--/-- 21 - english novelist thomas hardy writes tess of the d'urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 21 - eugene dubois discovers the first homo erectus remains on java in indonesia.
1891/--/-- 21 - french postimpressionist artist paul gauguin travels to tahiti.
1891/--/-- 21 - james naismith devises the game of basketball in springfield, mass.
1891/--/-- 21 - the american express company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1892/--/-- 22 - french artist henri de toulouse-lautrec paints at the moulin rouge.
1892/--/-- 22 - impressionist artist paul cezanne completes the card players.
1892/--/-- 22 - james j. corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from john l. sullivan.
1892/--/-- 22 - strike at carnegie steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 22 - the san francisco examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 22 - writer and political revolutionary jose marti founds the cuban revolutionary party.
1893/--/-- 23 - american artist louis comfort tiffany begins producing art nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 23 - cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th u.s. president; hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 23 - france adds laos to "protectorate" of indochina
1893/--/-- 23 - france adds laos to the union of indochina.
1893/--/-- 23 - gladstone's second irish home rule bill is vetoed by the house of lords in britain.
1893/--/-- 23 - grover cleveland (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1893/--/-- 23 - queen liliuokalani is ousted in hawaii; sanford b. dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 23 - the ivory coast becomes a french colony.
1893/--/-- 23 - victor horta's tassel house in brussels initiates the art nouveau architectural style.
1894/--/-- 24 - britain establishes a protectorate over buganda and conquers the rest of uganda.
1894/--/-- 24 - czech decorative artist alfons mucha designs a poster of sarah bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 24 - dreyfus case splits france
1894/--/-- 24 - english artist aubrey beardsley illustrates oscar wilde's salome.
1894/--/-- 24 - english author rudyard kipling publishes the jungle book.
1894/--/-- 24 - percival lowell builds an observatory to study the martian canals.
1894/--/-- 24 - rebellion in korea begins the first sino-japanese war.
1894/--/-- 24 - the arrest of army captain albert dreyfus creates a political crisis in france.
1894/--/-- 24 - thousands of armenians are massacred in turkey.
1895/--/-- 25 - anglo-irish playwright oscar wilde writes the importance of being earnest.
1895/--/-- 25 - japan defeats china; the shimonoseki treaty establishes korean independence.
1895/--/-- 25 - louis and auguste lumiere show the first motion pictures to a paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 25 - russian revolutionary vladimir ilich lenin is exiled to siberia.
1895/--/-- 25 - sir henry irving becomes the first british actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 25 - the american bowling congress (abc) is founded.
1895/--/-- 25 - the cuban war of independence begins against spain; jose marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 25 - the jameson raid on the boer republic of transvaal increases anti-british hostility.
1895/--/-- 25 - the first list of best-selling books is published by the bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 25 - wilhelm rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 25 - x rays are discovered by german physicist wilhelm c. roentgen.
1895/12/15 25 *** benson, richard james & speck, hortense (hortie) [sister] - married
1896/--/-- 26 - a tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in japan.
1896/--/-- 26 - italian composer giacomo puccini writes the opera la boheme.
1896/--/-- 26 - john philip sousa composes the stars and stripes forever.
1896/--/-- 26 - king menelik ii defeats the italians at adwa, maintaining ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 26 - supreme court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 26 - the first modern olympic games are held at athens in greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 26 - utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the union.
1897/--/-- 27 - american comic strip the katzenjammer kids is begun by rudolph dirks.
1897/--/-- 27 - austrian artist gustav klimt helps to found the vienna secession group.
1897/--/-- 27 - british physician havelock ellis begins his studies in the psychology of sex.
1897/--/-- 27 - english author rudyard kipling publishes captains courageous.
1897/--/-- 27 - french dramatist edmond rostand writes cyrano de bergerac.
1897/--/-- 27 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the sleeping gypsy.
1897/--/-- 27 - mckinley is inaugurated as the 25th u.s. president; hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 27 - russian author anton chekhov writes the play uncle vanya.
1897/--/-- 27 - stanislavsky founds the moscow art theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 27 - the first subway un the u.s. opens in boston.
1897/--/-- 27 - theodor herzl organizes the world zionist congress at basel in switzerland.
1897/--/-- 27 - william mckinley (republican) becomes president of the united states
1897/02/04 27 *** benson, floyd herman [nephew] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1898/--/-- 28 - anglo-irish playwright george bernard shaw publishes arms and the man.
1898/--/-- 28 - britain obtains a 99-year lease for hong kong from the chinese.
1898/--/-- 28 - commodore dewey destroys the spanish fleet in manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 28 - cuba occupied by u.s. and released
1898/--/-- 28 - english author h. g. wells publishes the war of the worlds.
1898/--/-- 28 - spain cedes puerto rico, guam and the philippines to the u.s. in the treaty of paris.
1898/--/-- 28 - spanish-american war, cuba, phillipines, us
1898/--/-- 28 - the boxer uprising begins in china; empress tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 28 - the british under kitchener defeat the mahdists at omdurman in sudan.
1898/--/-- 28 - the fashoda incident leads to a french withdrawal from the sudan.
1898/--/-- 28 - the spanish fleet is destroyed off cuba; spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 28 - the spanish-american war begins with a declaration of war by congress.
1898/--/-- 28 - the u.s. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of santiago.
1898/--/-- 28 - the u.s. battleship maine explodes in the spanish port of manila in the philippines.
1898/--/-- 28 - u.s. troops land on cuba; theodore roosevelt's rough riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 28 - william randolph hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-spanish feelings.
1898/10/22 28 *** benson, richard oscar [nephew] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1899/--/-- 29 - american artist winslow homer paints the gulf stream.
1899/--/-- 29 - american composer scott joplin publishes his maple leaf rag.
1899/--/-- 29 - designer charles rennie mackintosh completes the glasgow school of art.
1899/--/-- 29 - english composer edward elgar writes the enigma variations.
1899/--/-- 29 - journalist and future statesman winston churchill escapes from boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 29 - sigmund freud "interpretation of dreams"
1899/--/-- 29 - the british under robert baden-powell are besieged by the boers at mafeking.
1899/--/-- 29 - the south african war begins between the boers (afrikaners) and the british.
1899/--/-- 29 - u.s. secretary of state john m. hay advocates an open door policy for china.
1900/--/-- 30 - american novelist theodore dreiser publishes his first novel sister carrie.
1900/--/-- 30 - an international force lifts the boxer siege of peking.
1900/--/-- 30 - british politician keir hardie helps to found the labour party.
1900/--/-- 30 - chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in peking during the boxer uprising.
1900/--/-- 30 - dutch physiologist willem einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 30 - hawaii is made a u.s. territory; sanford dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 30 - hector guimard uses art nouveau designs for the entrances to the paris metro.
1900/--/-- 30 - humbert i is assassinated; he is succeeded by victor emanuel iii as king of italy.
1900/--/-- 30 - italian author gabriele d'annunzio publishes the flame of life.
1900/--/-- 30 - james j. jeffries beats jim corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 30 - max planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 30 - psychoanalyst sigmund freud publishes the interpretation of dreams.
1900/--/-- 30 - sir arthur evans begins the excavation of the minoan palace at knossos, crete.
1900/--/-- 30 - the boers begin a guerrilla war against the british occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 30 - the british defeat the boer (afrikaner) armies in south africa and occupy pretoria.
1900/--/-- 30 - the u.s. wins the first davis cup tennis contest.
1900/09/06 30 *** benson, lena may [niece] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1901/--/-- 31 - a 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in russia.
1901/--/-- 31 - a stele bearing the code of hammurabi is discovered in susa, iran.
1901/--/-- 31 - american surgeon walter reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 31 - an american league of baseball is formed in competition to the national league.
1901/--/-- 31 - andrew carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 31 - britain incorporates ashanti territory into the gold coast (ghana).
1901/--/-- 31 - english author beatrix potter publishes her children's book the tale of peter rabbit.
1901/--/-- 31 - guglielmo marconi tests radio transmissions between england and newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 31 - king c. gillette founds the american safety razor company.
1901/--/-- 31 - pres. mckinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 31 - president mckinley is assassinated by the anarchist leon czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 31 - queen victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son edward vii.
1901/--/-- 31 - russia occupies manchuria in north-east china.
1901/--/-- 31 - sergei rachmaninoff writes his second piano concerto.
1901/--/-- 31 - sir edward elgar composes the first of his five pomp and circumstance marches.
1901/--/-- 31 - spanish painter pablo picasso's blue period begins.
1901/--/-- 31 - temperance advocate carry nation uses a hatchet to attack a kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 31 - the commonwealth of australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 31 - the first u.s. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 31 - theodore roosevelt (republican) becomes president of the united states
1901/--/-- 31 - theodore roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th u.s. president.
1901/--/-- 31 - victor l. berger and eugene v. debs help found the american socialist party.
1901/01/02 31 - edward vii succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1902/--/-- 32 - american artist robert henri paints the new york street scene west 57th street.
1902/--/-- 32 - conan doyle writes the sherlock holmes adventure the hound of the baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 32 - english author joseph conrad publishes heart of darkness.
1902/--/-- 32 - french filmmaker georges melies produces a trip to the moon.
1902/--/-- 32 - italian opera singer enrico caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 32 - maksim gorky's the lower depths is produced at the moscow art theater.
1902/--/-- 32 - oliver wendell holmes jr. is appointed to the u.s. supreme court.
1902/--/-- 32 - roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 32 - the photo-secession group is founded in new york by photographer alfred stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 32 - the treaty of vereeniging ends the south african war.
1902/07/07 32 *** benson, alcie jane [niece] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1902/08/-- 32 - edward vii crowned king of great britain and ireland and emperor of india at wes
1903/--/-- 33 - alexander, king of serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by peter i.
1903/--/-- 33 - american author jack london publishes the call of the wild.
1903/--/-- 33 - american novelist henry james publishes the ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 33 - bernard shaw's play man and superman is produced in london.
1903/--/-- 33 - colonel francis younghusband leads a british military expedition into tibet.
1903/--/-- 33 - edwin s. porter directs the pioneering western film the great train robbery.
1903/--/-- 33 - emmeline pankhurst founds the women's social and political union in britain.
1903/--/-- 33 - marie and pierre curie win the nobel prize for physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 33 - orville wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 33 - panama declares its independence from columbia; the u.s. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 33 - the rolls-royce automobile company is founded in britain.
1903/--/-- 33 - the u.s. acquires perpetual control over the panama canal zone.
1903/--/-- 33 - the first world series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 33 - vladimir ilich lenin organizes the bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 33 - wright bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 33 - world series nl pittsburgh (3) al boston (5)
1904/--/-- 34 - italian composer giacomo puccini's opera madame butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 34 - ivan pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the nobel prize.
1904/--/-- 34 - james barrie's play peter pan is produced in london.
1904/--/-- 34 - max weber publishes the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
1904/--/-- 34 - roosevelt asserts u.s. right to intervene in latin america
1904/--/-- 34 - russia and japan at war
1904/--/-- 34 - russian author anton chekhov's play the cherry orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 34 - territorial disputes in manchuria begin the russo-japanese war.
1904/--/-- 34 - the abbey theatre is founded in dublin.
1904/--/-- 34 - the new york city subway is opened.
1904/05/01 34 *** benson, roy lee [nephew] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1905/--/-- 35 - a general strike and revolution begin in russia; nicholas ii grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 35 - albert einstein proposes special theory of relativity
1905/--/-- 35 - ambrose fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 35 - american humorist and actor will rogers makes his new york city debut.
1905/--/-- 35 - american labor leader eugene v. debs founds the industrial workers of the world.
1905/--/-- 35 - chinese revolutionary sun yat-sen founds the t'ung-meng hui (alliance society).
1905/--/-- 35 - ernst ludwig kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group die brucke.
1905/--/-- 35 - french territorial ambitions spark the first moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 35 - german physicist albert einstein proposes his special theory of relativity.
1905/--/-- 35 - german poet rainer maria rilke publishes the book of hours.
1905/--/-- 35 - henri matisse and andre derain form the fauves (wild beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 35 - psychologist alfred binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 35 - roosevelt begins his second term as u.s. president; fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 35 - the cullinan diamond is found in south africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 35 - the russian fleet is destroyed by the japanese at the battle of tsushima.
1905/--/-- 35 - the sinn fein irish nationalist movement is founded by arthur griffith.
1905/--/-- 35 - the union of norway and sweden is dissolved; haakon vii is elected king of norway.
1905/--/-- 35 - w.e.b. du bois forms the niagara movement to demand full civil rights for black americans.
1905/--/-- 35 - mini-revolution in russia
1905/10/-- 35 - world series nl new york (4) al philadelphia (1)
1906/--/-- 36 - british author john galsworthy publishes the first novel of the forsythe saga.
1906/--/-- 36 - h.m.s. dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 36 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen traverses the northwest passage.
1906/--/-- 36 - the aga khan iii forms the all-india moslim league.
1906/--/-- 36 - the dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of french army officer alfred dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 36 - the san francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 36 - under the platt amendment u.s. troops return to cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 36 - upton sinclair's novel the jungle leads to the u.s. pure foods and drugs act.
1906/05/20 36 *** benson, bonnie sue [niece] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1906/10/-- 36 - world series nl chicago (2) al chicago (4)
1907/--/-- 37 - a triple entente is formed between britain, france and russia.
1907/--/-- 37 - anna pavlova dances the dying swan, choreographed by mikhail fokine.
1907/--/-- 37 - irish playwright j.m. synge writes the playboy of the western world.
1907/--/-- 37 - lee de forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 37 - oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the union.
1907/--/-- 37 - rasputin gains influence at the court of russian emperor nicholas ii.
1907/--/-- 37 - the panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the u.s. stock market.
1907/--/-- 37 - the first ziegfeld follies are staged in new york city.
1907/10/-- 37 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (0)
1907/10/06 37 *** benson, glendon lucile [niece] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1908/--/-- 38 - an earthquake at messina in italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 38 - austria-hungary annexes bosnia and hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 38 - austrian artist gustav klimt paints the kiss.
1908/--/-- 38 - automaker william durant founds the general motors company.
1908/--/-- 38 - british soldier robert baden-powell founds the boy scout movement.
1908/--/-- 38 - filmmakers charles pathe and leon gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 38 - ge patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 38 - jack johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 38 - kenneth grahame publishes his children's story the wind in the willows.
1908/--/-- 38 - king leopold ii of the belgians establishes the independent state of congo in africa.
1908/--/-- 38 - liberal leader herbert asquith becomes prime minister of britain.
1908/--/-- 38 - mary baker eddy establishes the christian science monitor.
1908/--/-- 38 - pablo picasso and georges braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 38 - the ashcan school of painters exhibit in new york city.
1908/--/-- 38 - the ford motor company produces the first model t automobile.
1908/--/-- 38 - the national association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) is founded.
1908/--/-- 38 - the tunguska fireball explodes in siberia with the force of a modern h-bomb.
1908/--/-- 38 - the young turk revolution in turkey leads to political reform.
1908/10/-- 38 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (1)
1908/12/22 38 *** benson, raymond [nephew] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) new market, madison, alabama
1909/--/-- 39 - american architect frank lloyd wright builds the robie house in chicago.
1909/--/-- 39 - american artist george bellows paints the prize fight scene stag at sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 39 - american explorer robert e. peary reaches the north pole.
1909/--/-- 39 - american poet william carlos williams publishes poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 39 - american writer gertrude stein publishes three lives.
1909/--/-- 39 - french aviator louis bleriot makes the first flight across the english channel.
1909/--/-- 39 - naacp in nyc
1909/--/-- 39 - russian impresario serge diaghilev presents the ballet russe in paris.
1909/--/-- 39 - taft is inaugurated as the 27th u.s. president; sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 39 - william howard taft (republican) becomes president of the united states
1909/06/01 39 *** benson, raymond [nephew] - died new market, madison, alabama new market, madison, alabama
1909/10/-- 39 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al detroit (3)
1910/--/-- 40 - british empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 40 - british author arnold bennett publishes clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 40 - british politician winston churchill is appointed first lord of the admiralty.
1910/--/-- 40 - france groups four african territories together as french equatorial africa.
1910/--/-- 40 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the dream.
1910/--/-- 40 - french sculptor auguste rodin casts the bronze figure the thinker.
1910/--/-- 40 - fundamentalism begins with "five points"
1910/--/-- 40 - george v succeeds his father edward vii as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/--/-- 40 - german bacteriologist paul ehrlich synthesizes salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 40 - italian artists led by umberto boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 40 - japanese forces annex korea.
1910/--/-- 40 - madero, villa and zapata lead a revolution against mexican dictator porfirio diaz.
1910/--/-- 40 - russian-born artist wassily kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 40 - the art deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 40 - the union of south africa is formed; louis botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 40 - george v succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/09/10 40 *** benson, malda leona [niece] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) new market, madison, alabama
1910/10/-- 40 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1911/--/-- 41 - american aviator glen curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 41 - american novelist edith wharton publishes ethan frome.
1911/--/-- 41 - american songwriter irving berlin publishes alexander's ragtime band.
1911/--/-- 41 - elmer a. sperry designs the first american gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 41 - english author g.k. chesterton publishes the first father brown story.
1911/--/-- 41 - german-american anthropologist franz boas publishes the mind of primitive man.
1911/--/-- 41 - hans geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 41 - italy's attempts to annex cyrenaica and tripolitania leads to the italo-turkish war.
1911/--/-- 41 - mexican dictator porfirio diaz is overthrown; francisco madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 41 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen reaches the south pole ahead of robert scott.
1911/--/-- 41 - richard strauss' opera der rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 41 - robert a millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 41 - russian artist marc chagall paints i and my village.
1911/--/-- 41 - sir ernest rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 41 - the ch'ing dynasty is deposed in china; a republic is formed under sun yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 41 - the first film studio is established at hollywood in california.
1911/--/-- 41 - tibet declares its independence from china.
1911/--/-- 41 - willis carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/02/16 41 *** benson, floyd herman [nephew] - died kelso, tennessee kelso, tennessee kelso, tennessee
1911/06/02 41 - george v crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by randa
1911/10/-- 41 - world series nl new york (2) al philadelphia (4)
1912/--/-- 42 - american indian jim thorpe wins the olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 42 - american author edgar rice burroughs publishes tarzan of the apes.
1912/--/-- 42 - american writer willa cather publishes her first novel alexander's bridge.
1912/--/-- 42 - arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 42 - austrian psychologist alfred adler publishes the neurotic constitution.
1912/--/-- 42 - british explorers under scott reach the south pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 42 - french dada artist marcel duchamp paints nude descending a staircase.
1912/--/-- 42 - german geophysicist alfred wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 42 - morocco is divided between france and spain after the second moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 42 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 42 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 42 - piltdown man is discovered in britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 42 - russian dancer vaslav nijinsky choreographs and dances in the afternoon of the faun.
1912/--/-- 42 - the balkan league begins the first balkan war against the ottoman empire.
1912/--/-- 42 - the liner titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 42 - theodore roosevelt campaigns for the u.s. presidency under the bull moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 42 - world series nl new york (3) al boston (4)
1912/10/27 42 *** benson, willis daniel [nephew] - born to benson, richard james and speck, hortense (hortie) kelso, lincoln, tennessee
1913/--/-- 43 - american poet robert frost publishes a boy's will.
1913/--/-- 43 - bertrand russell and a.e. whitehead publish principia mathematica.
1913/--/-- 43 - danish physicist niels bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 43 - english novelist d.h. lawrence publishes sons and lovers.
1913/--/-- 43 - federal income tax is introduced in the u.s.
1913/--/-- 43 - igor stravinsky's ballet the rite of spring causes a scandal at the paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 43 - indian poet rabindranath tagore wins the nobel prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 43 - king george i of greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by constantine i
1913/--/-- 43 - marcel proust writes the first volume of remembrance of things past.
1913/--/-- 43 - medical missionary albert schweitzer builds a hospital at lambarene in africa.
1913/--/-- 43 - russian revolutionary joseph stalin is exiled to siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 43 - samuel goldwyn founds his first movie company with jesse lasky and cecil b. de mille.
1913/--/-- 43 - socialists sidney and beatrice webb found the political journal the new statesman.
1913/--/-- 43 - the constructivism art movement begins in russia.
1913/--/-- 43 - the island of crete is united with greece.
1913/--/-- 43 - the second balkan war begins with a bulgarian attack on serbia.
1913/--/-- 43 - victoriano huerta leads a military coup in mexico; president francisco madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 43 - wilson is inaugurated as the 28th u.s. president; marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 43 - woodrow wilson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1913/10/-- 43 - world series nl new york (1) al philadelphia (4)
1914/--/-- 44 - a british expedition led by ernest shackleton is marooned in the antarctic.
1914/--/-- 44 - a german fleet defeats the british at coronel but is decimated at the falklands.
1914/--/-- 44 - archduke franz ferdinand is assassinated in sarajevo, precipitating world war i.
1914/--/-- 44 - austrian forces invade serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 44 - black composer w.c. handy writes the st. louis blues.
1914/--/-- 44 - charlie chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 44 - france, russia and britain (the allies) are at war with germany and austria-hungary.
1914/--/-- 44 - george bernard shaw's play pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 44 - german forces invade belgium and france but are halted at the marne.
1914/--/-- 44 - german submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 44 - japan joins the allies and captures the german base of tsingtao in china.
1914/--/-- 44 - mack sennett produces comedy films starring the keystone kops.
1914/--/-- 44 - parisian couturier coco chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 44 - president wilson declares u.s. neutrality in world war i.
1914/--/-- 44 - russian forces invade east prussia but are defeated at the battle of tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 44 - the panama canal is completed, connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans.
1914/--/-- 44 - turkey declares war on the allies; britain annexes turkish cyprus.
1914/--/-- 44 - u.s. marines land at veracruz in mexico; president huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 44 - world war i begins
1914/10/-- 44 - world series nl boston (4) al philadelphia (0)
1915/--/-- 45 - a german submarine torpedoes the british liner lusitania; 124 americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 45 - albert einstein formulates his general theory of relativity.
1915/--/-- 45 - anglo-french forces land at gallipoli in an attempt to force turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 45 - austrian writer franz kafka publishes the metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 45 - d. w. griffith's movie the birth of a nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 45 - emiliano zapata and pancho villa lead rebellions against venustiano carranza in mexico.
1915/--/-- 45 - english author somerset maugham publishes of human bondage.
1915/--/-- 45 - german zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on britain.
1915/--/-- 45 - italy joins the allies and invades austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 45 - president wilson recognizes the mexican government of venustiano carranza.
1915/--/-- 45 - serbia is overrun by the combined forces of austria, germany and bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 45 - the anzacs (australian and new zealand army corps) fight at gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 45 - the dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 45 - the germans use poison gas for the first time at ypres on the western front.
1915/--/-- 45 - u.s. marines land in haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 45 - war poet rupert brooke's 1914 and other poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/10/-- 45 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al boston (4)
1916/--/-- 46 - albert einstein proposes general theory of relativity
1916/--/-- 46 - allied forces withdraw from gallipoli after strong turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 46 - american poet carl sandburg publishes his first book chicago poems.
1916/--/-- 46 - british forces assault the german line at the somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 46 - german assaults at verdun are repulsed by the french with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 46 - james joyce publishes a portrait of the artist as a young man.
1916/--/-- 46 - jeannette rankin becomes the first female member of u.s. house of representatives.
1916/--/-- 46 - lloyd george becomes prime minister of britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 46 - margaret sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 46 - north sea storms flood lowlands in the netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 46 - t. tzara dada
1916/--/-- 46 - the british and german fleets clash at the battle of jutland.
1916/--/-- 46 - the easter rising in dublin is suppressed within a week by the british.
1916/--/-- 46 - the russian brusilov offensive meets with success on the eastern front.
1916/--/-- 46 - the trans-siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 46 - u.s. marines land in santo domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 46 - u.s. troops under pershing invade mexico in retaliation for raids by pancho villa.
1916/10/-- 46 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al boston (4)
1917/--/-- 47 - adoption of the convoy system reduces allied losses to german submarines.
1917/--/-- 47 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot publishes the love song of j. alfred prufrock.
1917/--/-- 47 - art critic and writer guillaume apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 47 - astrophysicist karl schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 47 - blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 47 - british forces attack the germans in the third battle of ypres.
1917/--/-- 47 - british forces under allenby capture jerusalem and bagdhad from the turks.
1917/--/-- 47 - dutch artists theo van doesburg and piet mondrian found the magazine de stijl.
1917/--/-- 47 - english composer gustav holst completes the planets.
1917/--/-- 47 - english humorist p.g. wodehouse creates bertie wooster and his butler jeeves.
1917/--/-- 47 - germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 47 - italian forces are defeated by austria at the battle of caporetto.
1917/--/-- 47 - russian revolutions: communist u.s.s.r. formed
1917/--/-- 47 - selective service act creates draft
1917/--/-- 47 - swiss psychiatrist carl jung publishes the psychology of the unconscious.
1917/--/-- 47 - t.e. lawrence (lawrence of arabia) leads the arab revolt against the turks.
1917/--/-- 47 - the balfour declaration endorses a jewish national homeland in palestine.
1917/--/-- 47 - the germans and the bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at brest-litovsk.
1917/--/-- 47 - the germans help lenin return to russia from exile in switzerland.
1917/--/-- 47 - the jones act gives all puerto ricans the right to u.s. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 47 - the russian revolution begins; emperor nicholas ii abdicates.
1917/--/-- 47 - the u.s. purchases the virgin islands from denmark.
1917/--/-- 47 - the united states declares war on germany.
1917/--/-- 47 - the zimmermann note proposing a secret mexican alliance with germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 47 - the disastrous nivelle offensive leads to mutinies in the french army.
1917/--/-- 47 - the earliest jazz recordings are made in new york city.
1917/--/-- 47 - the first pulitzer prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 47 - the provisional kerensky government is deposed; bolsheviks seize power in russia.
1917/10/-- 47 - world series nl new york (2) al chicago (4)
1918/--/-- 48 - advances by french, british and american armies force a general german retreat.
1918/--/-- 48 - american astronomer harlow shapley discovers the dimensions of the milky way.
1918/--/-- 48 - american author booth tarkington writes the magnificent ambersons.
1918/--/-- 48 - american forcesunder pershing help to stem the german offensive.
1918/--/-- 48 - an airmail service begins among new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c.
1918/--/-- 48 - an influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 48 - austria, poland and czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of world war i.
1918/--/-- 48 - bloomsbury group member lytton strachey publishes eminent victorians.
1918/--/-- 48 - bolshevik leader leon trotsky organizes the red army.
1918/--/-- 48 - civil war breaks out between the red and white russian armies.
1918/--/-- 48 - french composer erik satie writes socrate.
1918/--/-- 48 - german air ace manfred von richthofen (the red baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 48 - nicholas ii, the last emperor of russia, and his family are executed by the bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 48 - revolution breaks out in germany; emperor william ii flees to the netherlands.
1918/--/-- 48 - shapley determines sun is part of milky way galaxy
1918/--/-- 48 - the germans renew their assault on the western front in the ludendorff offensive.
1918/--/-- 48 - the weimar republic negotiates an armistice for germany, ending world war i.
1918/--/-- 48 - the world's largest telescope is installed at mount wilson observatory.
1918/--/-- 48 - women over 30 win the vote in britain.
1918/10/-- 48 - world series nl chicago (2) al boston (4)
1919/--/-- 49 - boxer jack dempsey knocks out jess willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 49 - british troops massacre demonstrators at amritsar in india.
1919/--/-- 49 - english aviators alcock and brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 49 - french tennis star suzanne lenglen wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 49 - george gershwin composes his first hit song swanee.
1919/--/-- 49 - german communist rosa luxemburg is murdered after the sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 49 - italian leader benito mussolini organizes his fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 49 - jan smuts succeeds louis botha as prime minister of south africa.
1919/--/-- 49 - lady astor becomes the first woman member of the british house of commons.
1919/--/-- 49 - league of nations
1919/--/-- 49 - mexican revolutionary emiliano zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 49 - russian-american anarchist emma goldman is deported to the soviet union.
1919/--/-- 49 - the bauhaus school of design is founded in germany by walter gropius.
1919/--/-- 49 - the chicago white sox conspire to fix the baseball world series.
1919/--/-- 49 - the german fleet is scuttled at scapa flow in the orkney islands.
1919/--/-- 49 - the league of nations is formed with geneva in switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 49 - the paris peace conference opens at versailles.
1919/--/-- 49 - the polish-soviet war begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 49 - the radio corporation of america (rca) is formed.
1919/--/-- 49 - versailles peace treaty
1919/--/-- 49 - world war i ends
1919/10/-- 49 - world series nl cincinnati (5) al chicago (3)
1920/--/-- 50 *** speck, belle - died
1920/--/-- 50 - 18th amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 50 - 19th amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 50 - a home rule bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern ireland.
1920/--/-- 50 - admiral miklos horthy is appointed regent of hungary.
1920/--/-- 50 - adolf hitler forms the national socialist german workers' (nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 50 - american novelist sinclair lewis publishes main street.
1920/--/-- 50 - american tennis star bill tilden wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 50 - arturo alessandri becomes president of chile.
1920/--/-- 50 - british east africa becomes a crown colony as kenya.
1920/--/-- 50 - chaim weizmann is named president of the world zionist organization.
1920/--/-- 50 - dutch artist piet mondrian paints the composition with red, yellow and blue.
1920/--/-- 50 - french art deco glassmaker rene lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 50 - german east africa is transferred to british control as tanganyika (now tanzania).
1920/--/-- 50 - mahatma gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against british rule in india.
1920/--/-- 50 - mexican president venustiano carranza is deposed and killed by alvaro obregon.
1920/--/-- 50 - mystery writer agatha christie publishes her first hercule poirot story.
1920/--/-- 50 - russian artist aleksandr rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 50 - the 18th amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the u.s.
1920/--/-- 50 - the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 50 - the russian civil war ends with victory for the bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 50 - the u.s. senate votes against joining the league of nations.
1920/09/16 50 *** little, alice bessie & benson, richard oscar [nephew] - married
1920/10/-- 50 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al cleveland (5)
in 1870 transportation was by:
foot
horse
bicycle
train
steamboat
by 1920 transportation was by:
balloon
car & bus
propeller airplane
in addition.
in 1870 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
by 1920 communications was by:
telephone
in addition.
in 1870 food preparation was by:
wood
by 1920 food preparation was by:
gas
in addition.
in 1870 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1870 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1870 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
machine guns
submarine
iron clad ships
mines
by 1920 war making was by:
tank
tnt
chemical agents
aeroplane
in addition.
by 1920 war making by:
calvary
had been discontinued.
in 1870 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
by 1920 navigation was by:
radio signals
in addition.
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