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Events of 1915-1927

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  • US marines occupy Haiti

  • Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal

  • Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

  • 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada

  • Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.

  • World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

  • Battle of Verdun in WW I begins

  • US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I

  • World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

  • World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

  • World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.

  • Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations

  • World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.

  • World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

  • In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat

  • Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I

  • Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.

  • 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland

  • World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.

  • World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.

  • The Finnish Civil War ends

  • 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France

  • World War I: German troops cross the Marne

  • Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

  • In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends

  • During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel

  • World War I: Battle of Meuse.

  • World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

  • The Polish-Soviet War begins.

  • Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)

  • Polish Army executes 35 young Jews

  • British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists

  • Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

  • Finland declares war on bolsheviks

  • Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria

  • Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson

  • The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.

  • Panama Canal opens

  • 19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified

  • Warren G Harding elected 29th president

  • Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire

  • Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics

  • Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds

  • Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians

  • Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional

  • World Law Day, 1st celebrated

  • Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote

  • German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized

  • Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

  • Lincoln Memorial dedicated

  • Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.

  • Austria gains independence

  • The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul

  • Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich

  • 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY

  • US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries

  • Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%

  • New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers

  • US unemployment has nearly ended

  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form

  • US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day

  • 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000

  • Turkey declares independence

  • Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain

  • President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech

  • London public transport strike ends

  • Imperial Airways forms in Britain

  • 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2

  • Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens

  • France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr

  • Labour loses British parliamentary election

  • In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

  • School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die

  • The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.

  • Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald

  • US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation

  • German-Russian trade agreement signed

  • The Communist Party of India is founded.

  • US Senate agrees to join World Court

  • Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios

  • Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

  • Fire breaks out in Fenway Park

  • Railway Labor Act became law

  • Brazil leaves League of Nations

  • The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

  • National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos

  • Weather map televised for 1st time

  • Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die

  • Germany joins League of Nations

  • Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

  • Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250

  • Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

  • Fox Studios exhibits Movietone

  • Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died

  • Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan

  • The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2

  • Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928

  • Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

  • Earthquake hits Palestine

  • Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die

  • 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385