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In 1916 the first blood transfusion using stored and refrigerated blood is performed, by Oswald Hope Robertson, who was a medical researcher and U.S Army officer. -
Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract, becoming the highest paid actor in the industry at the time, making a salary of 670,000 a year. -
Mexican general Pancho Villa invades the US and kills 18 people. -
WW1 last 9 months, the battle of Verdun begins with German offensive, and an estimated 1 million are killed. -
Percival Lowell died from a stroke at 61, he was an American astronomer who discovered Pluto, and was the founder of Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. -
President of the US Woodrow Wilson asks congress to declare war on Germany, due to violations and trying to make Mexico their alliance. -
Alice Paul starts her 7 month jail sentence for peacefully protesting in support for the women's suffrage amendment at the White house. -
A train at Ciurea station in Romania catches fire and explodes killing about 800 - 1,000 people, and its recognized as the 3rd worst rail accident in history. -
Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer who was arrested in Paris under suspicion of being a German spy, she was executed by firing at 41. -
Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and inventor he founded the Zeppelin(an aircraft used in war) dies at 78. -
The Spanish flu kills about 21,000 people in just a week in the US only. -
The US House of representatives passes amendment allowing women to finally be recognized and be able to vote.
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Nelson Mandela was a south African activist, who served as the first president of south Africa. -
Mississippi was the 1st state to ratify the 18th amendment authorizing the prohibition of alcohol -
Ukrainian mobs massacre innocent Jews in Seredino Buda.
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Kelud volcano in Java Indonesia erupts killing about 5,000 people, and id the most active volcano that has erupted several times before this -
The German workers part forms, precursor to national German workers (aka the Nazi party). -
Polish army executes 35 young innocent Jews.
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Emil Fischer was a German chemist, who won a noble prize in 1902, he developed the Fischer projection which is a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms, commits suicide at 66. -
Adolf Hitler joins the German workers(Nazis) as its 7th member agreeing with the Germans nationalism and anti-Semitism. He later becomes a leader of the Nazis himself. -
Walt Disney starts working as an artist with KC co for only $40 a week. -
George Bernard Shaw premieres his play "Heartbreak House" in NYC, it was a fantasia in the Russian manner on English.
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The US post office says that children can't be shipped/sent by parcel after various attempts. -
Mussolini was a facist leader in Italy, he starts a squad who begins terror and kill 11 in Bologna, Italy. -
8.5 earthquake leaves Gansu province, china in devastation and shambles, killing about 200,000 people. -
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