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This is the day that World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France
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The British now declare war on Germany
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27,000 French soldiers died trying to cross toward German borders
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Turkey enters the war and sides with the Germans
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At this time America was neutral in the war. The Lusitania set sail from the New York port carrying American civilians and crew members, when they reached the Irish coast the captain was neverous of why there were no other ships in site. Thats when the first torpedo was fired by a German U-Boat which sank the ship in 18 minutes drownding 1,153 passangers and crew members.
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Italy declares war on Austria and Germany
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The longest battle of the entire war
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Considered to be the only major naval battle of the whole entire war. The Germany navy lost and they never positioned themselves to go to war at sea during the rest of the war.
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The United States enters the war by declaring war on Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania
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This was the treay signed between both Russia and Germany
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On October 4th Germany asks the allies for an armistice
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Germany's navy mutinied
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Turkey made peace followed by Austria making peace on November 3rd.
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Turkey made peace with the Allies and the Italians captured Vittorio Veneto.
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Austria-Hungary signed an armistice with Italy. A mutiny occurred within the High Seas Fleet based at Kiel this generally seen as the cause of the German Revolution.
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Germany signed an armistice with the allies and this was the official date of the end of World War I
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Signed between Germany and the allies.
*Britain 750,000 solidiers killed *France 1,400,000
*Beligium 50,000 *Italy 600,000 * Russia 1,700,000
*America 116,000 *Germany 2,000,000 *Austria 1,200,000
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Following the end of the war a peace conference was held at Paris.
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On May 5th Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested for robbery and murder. On the 23rd of august they were still claiming innocence executed in the electric chair.
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On this day the 19th amendment grants universal womens suffrage. Women now have the right to vote.
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Station KDKA in Pittsburgh PA initiates regular radio broadcasts and is the first station to do so
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Albert Einstein lectures in New York City about his theory of relativity
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The United States Congress established the Emergency Quota Act limiting the amount of incoming immigrants
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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Margaret Gorman wins the title of the Golden Mermaid trophy and later named Miss America
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Begins when the U.S. Secretary of Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming
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The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C and located on the opposite end of the National Mall from the Capitol
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First published Time magazine
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President Harding dies of an embolism after she had suffered ptomaine poisoning then the pneumonia. Coolidge was sworn in the next day on 3 August.
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The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix
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The Grand Ole Opry transmits its very first radio broadcast
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The first flight to the North Pole and back is accomplished when pilot Floyd Bennett and Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three engine monoplane. They were awarded the Medal of Honor
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The Great Mississippi Flood occurs and in resultaffects 700,000
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Silent movies come to an end as Jazz Singer, Al Jolson starring Broadway debuts as the "first" talking picture.
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The Ford Model A, successor to the Model T is produced under secrecy and production lines are shut down and retooled to produce it. On the 2 of December the car goes on sale and by 1929 1.5 million cars had been sold.
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The two-year-old St. Francis Dam gives way in California killing more than 500 people.
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Six gangsters from the "bugs" a mob and one other man are gunned dow in a garage in Chicago
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The stock market on Wallstreet in New York had crashed and marked the begining of the Great Depression.
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Disarmament treaty was signed by Britain,Japan,France,Italy,and the United States
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President Hoover signs the act, and its rate hikes slash world trade threatening depression
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Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner and President Hoover and congress approved it as the national anthem
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The Empire state building opens it was the tallest building in the world standing 1,250 feet tall it was an icon of NY and a symbol of the 20th century of man trying to achieve the impossible
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Al Capone was found guilty of Income tax evasion
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Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in federal prission and order to pay 215,000 dollars back in back taxes and was fined 50,000 dollars
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The son of Charles Lindbergh was kiddnapped because people thought Charles was wealthy and when he couldn't pay the kidnapper his son suffered and was found May 12th not far from home.
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On this day Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany and gets dictorial powers.
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51 days after Hitler took power the first nazi concentration camp was established.
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Bonnie Parkers husband was serving time for murder and she met Clyde Barrow when he was serving time for robbery she helped him escape and he was sent back when caught when he was out on paroll he met up with bonnie and lived a life of crime together they killed 13 people and on this day the police found them and killed them
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Three years after the crime was committed, Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of the crime of the kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh baby.
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Babe Ruth (greatest hitter in the history of baseball) retires from the major league he was indeucted into the Baseball hall of frame in 1939
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Held in Berlin, Germany where Hitler was watched carefully under a close eye
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Opens in Cooperstown New York home of one of Baseballs founders Abner Doubleday
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The US declares neutrality in European war after Germany invades Poland beginning World War II
