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Archduke Fraz was killed
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The Soliders building the Western trenches
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Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets.
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The Lusitanina Sunk by a German U-boat
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Germans sent spy planes to see where the enemy was hiding
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The Battle of Jutland, the major naval battle of the war, begins.
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President Woodro Wilson signs a bill incorrpurating the boys scouts of U.S
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Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercept and decipher the coded message.
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The United States declares war on Germany.
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The people gather on the streets of New York
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- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace.
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Germany launches the Spring Offensive.
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Influenza
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He died at the age of 60 in his sleep
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18th admendment to U. S constitution authorized prohibition
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The treaty of versailles is signed and ends WW2
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The steal strike begins across U.S
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U.S senate voted against League
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Nations votes not to join (U.S)
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The football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube from Belo Horizonte is founded as Palestra Italia in Brazil.
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The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station KDKA AM in Pittsburgh.
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Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
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The Kingdom of Hungary joins the League of Nations.
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March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires from his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
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April 4 – Warner Bros. film studio is formally incorporated in the United States as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
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July 20 – The Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport is founded.
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Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
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– Kristiania, the capital of Norway, reverted to its original name of Oslo.
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The National Forensic League was founded.
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Éamon de Valera organized Fianna Fáil in Ireland.
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An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.
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A military rebellion is crushed in Lisbon, Portugal.
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An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 100.
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Heavy hail kills 11 in Britain.
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A bomb attack against the Italian
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the first public demonstration of color TV was held by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York.
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Red Crescent adopted as an additional emblem of the League of Red Cross Societies.
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Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness" premieres in NYC
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Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
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NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joe Malone scores a record 7 goals
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Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
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El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
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Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music" premieres in NYC
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Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
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Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
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1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News"
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Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
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Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin
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While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.
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FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
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Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket" premieres in NYC
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Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
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1st high school auto driving course offered
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Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
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King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
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Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Ass. World Heavyweight title for 2nd time
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Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed
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Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded by Germany. British troops enter Belgium. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; Winston Churchill becomes new Prime Minister.
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German troops invade Denmark and Norway.
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Churchill and FDR form Atlantic Charter, establishing the war aims of both nations.
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Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary, and Rumania. Japanese bomb the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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By order of FDR, Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast are transferred to internment camps in the interior of the country.
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4 Nazi leaders attend a short meeting to discuss the elimination of the remaining European Jews. The genocidal plan is dubbed "The Final Solution"
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Due to the migration of many African-Americans from the rural South to the defense centers of the North and the pressure of labor and civil rights groups, an Executive order strengthens the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) calling for mandatory inclusion of nondiscrimination clauses in war contracts and subcontracts. Between 1940 and 1970, 5 million African-Americans took part in this migration, known as the "Second Great Migration."
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Allies invade Sicily.
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Soviet troops experience success against the Germans in the Crimea.
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Battle of the Philippine Sea, Allied victory over Japanese forces.
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Mussolini captured by Italian partisans and shot to death.
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German forces in Holland, North-West Germany, and Denmark surrender.
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The first meeting of the United Nations general assembly occurs after its founding on October 24, 1945 by fifty-one nations, including the Security Council nations of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A. These actions would lead to the disbanding of the League of Nations on April 18, when its mission was transferred to the U.N.
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The island nation of the Philippines is given their independence by the United States. This ends four hundred and twenty-five years of dominance by the west.
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Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposes aid extension to European nations for war recovery, known as the Marshall Plan, which would lead to Congressional approval of $12 billion over the following four years.
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President Harry S. Truman vetoes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act that would have curbed strikes, only to be overridden by Congress
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The Organization of American States is founded by twenty-one nations to provide a mutual security pact after World War II. Founding nations were Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
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President Harry S. Truman rallies from behind, capturing his first president election from the supposed winner Thomas E. Dewey, the governor of New York. Headlines in national newspapers had overtly announced a Dewey victory, only to be proven wrong. Truman won the Electoral College vote with 303 to Dewey's 189, with Strom Thurmond, running as the States' Rights candidate, receiving 39 Electoral votes. Truman won the election with less than 50% of the popular votes, with additional candidate, He
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NATO, the North American Treaty Organization, is formed by the United States, Canada, and ten Western European nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom). The treaty stated that any attack against one nation would be considered an attack against them all.
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Eleven leaders of the United States Communist party are convicted of advocating a violent insurrection and overthrow of the U.S. government. The Supreme Court would uphold the convictions
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Brink's robbery in Boston; almost $3 million stolen
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. Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to Russians
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Spurred by Schuman Plan, six nations form European Coal and Steel Community
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George VI dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II
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AEC announces “satisfactory” experiments in hydrogen-weapons research; eyewitnesses tell of blasts near Enewetak
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated president of United States
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Tito becomes president of Yugoslavia. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin discover structure of DNA. Ernest Hemingway wins Pulitzer for The Old Man and the Sea.
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First atomic submarine Nautilus launched
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. Dr. Jonas Salk starts inoculating children against polio. Algerian War of Independence against France begins
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Nikolai A. Bulganin becomes Soviet premier, replacing Malenkov
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AFL and CIO become one organization—AFL-CIO (. Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof wins Pulitzer.
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Hungarian Revoltion
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Elvis on Ed Sullivan's Show
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Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
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Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
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Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"
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Legos Become Popular
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Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev
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The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway
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"The Flintstones" who were often compared to "The Honeymooners" air on television
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After a two-year stint, Elvis Presley returns from Germany.
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Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.
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The DNA genetic code is broken.
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The films "American Graffiti" and "Animal House" are set in 1962.
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The Beatles' first record, "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan, is released by Polydor
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Michael E. De Bakey implants artificial heart in human for first time at Houston hospital; plastic device functions and patient lives for four days
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President Kennedy shot and killed by sniper in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president same day, Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby, Dallas nightclub owner
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. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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U.S. Supreme Court rules that congressional districts should be roughly equal in population
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Medicare bill passes.
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190,000 troops are in Vietnam.
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Bob Dylan breaks his neck and nearly dies in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York. He isn't seen in public for over a year.
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Star Trek, the classic science fiction television series, debuts with its first episode, titled "The Man Trap."
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Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison
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Rolling Stone Magazine is founded.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Johnny Cash records "Live at Folsom Prison".
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Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
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Sesame Street First Airs
