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Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated at serajevo
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The Kaiser receives at Potsdam special envoy from Austrian Emperor and promises "the full support of Germany" in the event of Austrian action against Serbia. He consults his military and naval advisers before leaving for a cruise in northern water
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Council of Austro Hungarian Ministers finally determine on action against Serbia
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The Grand Duke Nicholas appointed Commander-in-Chief Russian armies
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Britain declares wa on germany
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The BEF starts its retreat from Mons, Germany invaded France
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Battle of the Marne started
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First battle of Ypres
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Turkey entered the war on Germany's side. Trench warfare started to dominate the Western front
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The fist Zeppelin raid took place in Britain
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The British Bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
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Allied troops landed in Gallipoli
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The Lusitania get sunk by a German U boat
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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The germans captured warsaw from the russians
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The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
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Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage
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A landslide victory for Warren G. Harding in both the Electoral College and popular vote returns the Republican Party to the White House
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A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants is established by the United States Congress in the Emergency Quota Act, curbing legal immigration
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The proposal for a trail along the Allegheny Mountain ridges is put forward by regional planner Benton MacKaye
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The Limitation on Armaments Congress convenes in Washington, D.C.
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Construction begins on Yankee Stadium in New York City, often dubbed the House that Ruth Built
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The Lincoln Memorial, located on the opposite end of the National Mall from the Capitol building, is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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The 12th century Aztec Indian ruins in New Mexico are proclaimed as a National Monument by President Warren G. Harding
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Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated
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Excavation work on the Empire State Building begins with construction of the building itself starting on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
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Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food with his quick-freezing process and patents the concept.
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In order to combat the growing depression, President Herbert Hoover asks the U.S. Congress to pass a $150 million public works project to increase employment and economic activity.
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The state of Nevada legalizes gambling.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established to stimulate banking and business.
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The highest continuous paved road in the United States, the Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is opened to traffic.
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The highest continuous paved road in the United States, the Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is opened to traffic.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is established with the signing of the Securities Exchange Act into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The United States pulls its troops from Haiti.
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The United States government approves a sale of surplus material to Great Britain.
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The US Congress approves and enacts the first peacetime conscription draft.
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The US occupies iceland, taking over its defense from Great Britain and attempting to thward a potential invasion by Nazi Germany.
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North Africa is invaded by the US and Great Britain.
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The US encounters its first defeat European theater of WW2 at the battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
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The Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Race riots in Detroit and Harlem because forty deaths and seven hundred injuries,
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The first atomic bomb, the trinity test, is exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, after its production at Los Alamos.
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Four hundred thousand mine workers begin to strike, with other companies following their lead.
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The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) is established.
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The United States recalls all consular officialsfrom China after the seizure of the American consul general in Peking
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Thirty-five military advisors are sent to South Vietnam to give military and economic aid to the anti-Communist government
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Preliminary report from the Senator Estes Kefauver investigation that had begun on May 11, 1950 into organized crime is issued, stating that gambling take was in excess of $20 billion per year
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At Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the first hydrogen bomb, named Mike, is exploded
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President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower travels to Korea to try and end the conflict
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The first color televisions go on sale
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The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops
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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting a boycott that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court
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Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act
