...Date... AGE Event
1905/--/-- -1 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- -1 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- -1 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- -1 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- -1 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- -1 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- -1 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- -1 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- -1 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- -1 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- -1 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- -1 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- -1 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- -1 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- -1 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- -1 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- -1 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- -1 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- -1 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/09/10 -1 *** Lollar, Olivia (Ewing) & Ewing, Jesse Chilton [2nd cousin] - Married
1905/10/-- -1 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1905/10/29 -1 *** Ewing, Bessie Forest [Sister] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1905/11/06 0 *** Ewing, Mary (Booher) [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" Albany, Clinton county, Kentucky
1905/11/06 0 *** Ewing, Robert - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1906/--/-- 0 - British author John Galsworthy publishes the first novel of The Forsythe Saga.
1906/--/-- 0 - H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 0 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traverses the Northwest Passage.
1906/--/-- 0 - The Aga Khan III forms the All-India Moslim League.
1906/--/-- 0 - The Dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 0 - The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 0 - Under the Platt Amendment U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 0 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle leads to the U.S. Pure Foods and Drugs Act.
1906/10/-- 0 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1907/--/-- 1 - A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia.
1907/--/-- 1 - Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
1907/--/-- 1 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge writes The Playboy of the Western World.
1907/--/-- 1 - Lee De Forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 1 - Oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the Union.
1907/--/-- 1 - Rasputin gains influence at the court of Russian emperor Nicholas II.
1907/--/-- 1 - The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
1907/--/-- 1 - The first Ziegfeld Follies are staged in New York City.
1907/10/-- 1 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (0)
1908/--/-- 2 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 2 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 2 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- 2 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- 2 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- 2 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 2 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 2 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 2 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- 2 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- 2 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- 2 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- 2 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 2 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- 2 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- 2 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- 2 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- 2 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/03/11 2 *** Ewing, Annie (Harlan) [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1908/10/-- 2 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1908/10/10 2 *** Bagby, Henry G. [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1909/--/-- 3 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 3 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 3 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 3 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 3 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 3 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 3 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 3 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 3 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 3 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/10/-- 3 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 4 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 4 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 4 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 4 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 4 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 4 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 4 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 4 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 4 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 4 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 4 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 4 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 4 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 4 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 4 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/03/15 4 *** Wood, Mariba (Ewing) [Grandmother] - Died Clinton County, Kentucky
1910/05/-- 4 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/10/-- 4 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/--/-- 5 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 5 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 5 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 5 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 5 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 5 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 5 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 5 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 5 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 5 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 5 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 5 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 5 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 5 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 5 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 5 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 5 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 5 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/04/03 5 *** Ewing, Robert Matthew [Father] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1911/06/02 5 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 5 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1912/--/-- 6 - American Indian Jim Thorpe wins the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 6 - American author Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1912/--/-- 6 - American writer Willa Cather publishes her first novel Alexander's Bridge.
1912/--/-- 6 - Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 6 - Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler publishes The Neurotic Constitution.
1912/--/-- 6 - British explorers under Scott reach the South Pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 6 - French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase.
1912/--/-- 6 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 6 - Morocco is divided between France and Spain after the second Moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 6 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 6 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 6 - Piltdown man is discovered in Britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 6 - Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky choreographs and dances in The Afternoon of the Faun.
1912/--/-- 6 - The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
1912/--/-- 6 - The liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 6 - Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the U.S. presidency under the Bull Moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 6 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL BOSTON (4)
1913/--/-- 7 - American poet Robert Frost publishes A Boy's Will.
1913/--/-- 7 - Bertrand Russell and A.E. Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica.
1913/--/-- 7 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 7 - English novelist D.H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers.
1913/--/-- 7 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913/--/-- 7 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring causes a scandal at the Paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 7 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 7 - King George I of Greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by Constantine I
1913/--/-- 7 - Marcel Proust writes the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
1913/--/-- 7 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at Lambarene in Africa.
1913/--/-- 7 - Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 7 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille.
1913/--/-- 7 - Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb found the political journal The New Statesman.
1913/--/-- 7 - The constructivism art movement begins in Russia.
1913/--/-- 7 - The island of Crete is united with Greece.
1913/--/-- 7 - The second Balkan War begins with a Bulgarian attack on Serbia.
1913/--/-- 7 - Victoriano Huerta leads a military coup in Mexico; president Francisco Madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 7 - Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president; Marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 7 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1913/10/-- 7 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1913/10/23 7 *** Bagby, Alice (Vincent) [Aunt] - Died Hiseville Cemetery, Barren County KY
1914/--/-- 8 - A British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton is marooned in the Antarctic.
1914/--/-- 8 - A German fleet defeats the British at Coronel but is decimated at the Falklands.
1914/--/-- 8 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating World War I.
1914/--/-- 8 - Austrian forces invade Serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 8 - Black composer W.C. Handy writes the St. Louis Blues.
1914/--/-- 8 - Charlie Chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 8 - France, Russia and Britain (the Allies) are at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1914/--/-- 8 - George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 8 - German forces invade Belgium and France but are halted at the Marne.
1914/--/-- 8 - German submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on Allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 8 - Japan joins the Allies and captures the German base of Tsingtao in China.
1914/--/-- 8 - Mack Sennett produces comedy films starring the Keystone Kops.
1914/--/-- 8 - Parisian couturier Coco Chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 8 - President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality in World War I.
1914/--/-- 8 - Russian forces invade East Prussia but are defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 8 - The Panama Canal is completed, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1914/--/-- 8 - Turkey declares war on the Allies; Britain annexes Turkish Cyprus.
1914/--/-- 8 - U.S. Marines land at Veracruz in Mexico; President Huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 8 - World War I begins
1914/10/-- 8 - World Series NL BOSTON (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (0)
1915/--/-- 9 - A German submarine torpedoes the British liner Lusitania; 124 Americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 9 - Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
1915/--/-- 9 - Anglo-French forces land at Gallipoli in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 9 - Austrian writer Franz Kafka publishes The Metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 9 - D. W. Griffith's movie The Birth of a Nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 9 - Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa lead rebellions against Venustiano Carranza in Mexico.
1915/--/-- 9 - English author Somerset Maugham publishes Of Human Bondage.
1915/--/-- 9 - German Zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on Britain.
1915/--/-- 9 - Italy joins the Allies and invades Austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 9 - President Wilson recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza.
1915/--/-- 9 - Serbia is overrun by the combined forces of Austria, Germany and Bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 9 - The Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) fight at Gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 9 - The Dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 9 - The Germans use poison gas for the first time at Ypres on the Western Front.
1915/--/-- 9 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 9 - War poet Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/10/-- 9 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/--/-- 10 *** Ewing, Mary Elizabeth (Hughes) [Niece] - Born to Ewing, William Jesse Howard and Tabor, Fanny Albany, Clinton, KY
1916/--/-- 10 - Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
1916/--/-- 10 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli after strong Turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 10 - American poet Carl Sandburg publishes his first book Chicago Poems.
1916/--/-- 10 - British forces assault the German line at the Somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 10 - German assaults at Verdun are repulsed by the French with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 10 - James Joyce publishes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1916/--/-- 10 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
1916/--/-- 10 - Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 10 - Margaret Sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 10 - North Sea storms flood lowlands in the Netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 10 - T. Tzara DADA
1916/--/-- 10 - The British and German fleets clash at the Battle of Jutland.
1916/--/-- 10 - The Easter Rising in Dublin is suppressed within a week by the British.
1916/--/-- 10 - The Russian Brusilov Offensive meets with success on the Eastern Front.
1916/--/-- 10 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 10 - U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 10 - U.S. troops under Pershing invade Mexico in retaliation for raids by Pancho Villa.
1916/04/03 10 *** Ewing, Margaret Mariba [Sister] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Peolia Cem - Clinton County KY
1916/10/-- 10 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/10/01 10 *** Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" [Mother] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky & death dates is "Samuel Wood, His 7
1917/--/-- 11 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- 11 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- 11 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 11 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 11 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 11 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- 11 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- 11 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- 11 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- 11 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- 11 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 11 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- 11 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- 11 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- 11 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- 11 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- 11 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- 11 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- 11 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- 11 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 11 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- 11 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- 11 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- 11 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 11 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- 11 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- 11 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 11 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/08/10 11 *** Wood, Robert White [1st cousin once removed] - Died Irwin Cemetery - Clinton County Kentucky
1917/10/-- 11 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1918/--/-- 12 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 12 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 12 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 12 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 12 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 12 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 12 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 12 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 12 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 12 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 12 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 12 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 12 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 12 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 12 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 12 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 12 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 12 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 12 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/10/-- 12 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
1919/--/-- 13 - Boxer Jack Dempsey knocks out Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 13 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1919/--/-- 13 - English aviators Alcock and Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 13 - French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 13 - George Gershwin composes his first hit song Swanee.
1919/--/-- 13 - German communist Rosa Luxemburg is murdered after the Sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 13 - Italian leader Benito Mussolini organizes his Fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 13 - Jan Smuts succeeds Louis Botha as prime minister of South Africa.
1919/--/-- 13 - Lady Astor becomes the first woman member of the British House of Commons.
1919/--/-- 13 - League of Nations
1919/--/-- 13 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 13 - Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to the Soviet Union.
1919/--/-- 13 - The Bauhaus school of design is founded in Germany by Walter Gropius.
1919/--/-- 13 - The Chicago White Sox conspire to fix the baseball World Series.
1919/--/-- 13 - The German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1919/--/-- 13 - The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 13 - The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles.
1919/--/-- 13 - The Polish-Soviet War begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 13 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
1919/--/-- 13 - Versailles Peace Treaty
1919/--/-- 13 - World War I ends
1919/10/-- 13 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (5) AL CHICAGO (3)
1920/--/-- 14 - 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 14 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 14 - A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
1920/--/-- 14 - Admiral Miklos Horthy is appointed regent of Hungary.
1920/--/-- 14 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 14 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
1920/--/-- 14 - American tennis star Bill Tilden wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 14 - Arturo Alessandri becomes president of Chile.
1920/--/-- 14 - British East Africa becomes a crown colony as Kenya.
1920/--/-- 14 - Chaim Weizmann is named president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920/--/-- 14 - Dutch artist Piet Mondrian paints the Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
1920/--/-- 14 - French Art Deco glassmaker Rene Lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 14 - German East Africa is transferred to British control as Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
1920/--/-- 14 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British rule in India.
1920/--/-- 14 - Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is deposed and killed by Alvaro Obregon.
1920/--/-- 14 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first Hercule Poirot story.
1920/--/-- 14 - Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 14 - The 18th Amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the U.S.
1920/--/-- 14 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 14 - The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 14 - The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920/10/-- 14 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL CLEVELAND (5)
1921/--/-- 15 - Alexander rules the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1921/--/-- 15 - American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 15 - Berber tribes under Abd el-Krim attack garrisons in Spanish Morocco.
1921/--/-- 15 - French cubist artist Fernand Leger paints Three Women.
1921/--/-- 15 - German surrealist artist Max Ernst paints L'Elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 15 - Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president; Coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 15 - Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 15 - Latin lover Rudolph Valentino stars in the silent film The Sheik.
1921/--/-- 15 - Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced.
1921/--/-- 15 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary Mexican life.
1921/--/-- 15 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created by Royal Charter.
1921/--/-- 15 - The Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Britain.
1921/--/-- 15 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 15 - W. L. MacKenzie King is elected prime minister of Canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 15 - Warren G. Harding (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1921/05/01 15 *** Booher, Wellington Virgil & Ewing, Mary (Booher) [Sister] - Married Married in Byrdstown, Pickett County, TN
1921/10/-- 15 - World Series NL NEW YORK (5) AL NEW YORK (3)
1922/--/-- 16 *** Ewing, Sophia (Cross) [Sister] & Cross, James Otto - Married
1922/--/-- 16 *** Hill, Corrine [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Hill, Hezzie K. and Burris, Stella E. (Hill)
1922/--/-- 16 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot writes The Waste Land.
1922/--/-- 16 - Constantine I abdicates as king of Greece; is succeeded by George II.
1922/--/-- 16 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 16 - Egypt achieves independence from Britain and becomes a monarchy under Fuad I.
1922/--/-- 16 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home.
1922/--/-- 16 - English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 16 - English composer William Walton composes Facade.
1922/--/-- 16 - Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 16 - Irish poet and novelist James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
1922/--/-- 16 - Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 16 - Kemal Ataturk's attempts to restore Turkish territory leads to the Chanak Crisis.
1922/--/-- 16 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922/--/-- 16 - Robert Flaherty produces the first major film documentary Nanook of the North.
1922/--/-- 16 - The Fascists march on Rome; King Victor Emmanuel III names Mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 16 - William T. Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1922/04/07 16 *** Ewing, William Jesse Howard [Brother] - Died Mansfield, Richland, Ohio Mansfield, Richland, Ohio Mansfield, Richland, Ohio
1922/10/-- 16 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1923/--/-- 17 - "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 17 - Adolf Hitler's coup d'etat in Munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 17 - Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt opens a factory in Germany.
1923/--/-- 17 - American poet E. E. Cummings writes the novel The Enormous Room.
1923/--/-- 17 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine Time.
1923/--/-- 17 - Calvin Coolidge (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1923/--/-- 17 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 17 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
1923/--/-- 17 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to enforce German war reparations.
1923/--/-- 17 - General Miguel Primo de Rivera rules as dictator of Spain.
1923/--/-- 17 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 17 - Italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 17 - Jewish philosopher Martin Buber publishes Ich und Du (I and Thou).
1923/--/-- 17 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary Space.
1923/--/-- 17 - Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 17 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 17 - The Treaty of Lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern Turkey.
1923/--/-- 17 - Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 17 - Turkey is declared a republic; Ataturk Kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 17 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 17 - Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
1923/10/-- 17 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1923/12/03 18 *** Cross, Dorleen (McWhorter) [Niece] - Born to Cross, James Otto and Ewing, Sophia (Cross) Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1924/--/-- 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My Battle).
1924/--/-- 18 - Arab leader Ibn Saud drives the Hashimites from Mecca.
1924/--/-- 18 - English novelist E.M. Forster publishes A Passage To India.
1924/--/-- 18 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 18 - German novelist Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain.
1924/--/-- 18 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
1924/--/-- 18 - Ramsay MacDonald forms the first Labour government in Britain.
1924/--/-- 18 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 18 - Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 18 - The Boston Bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 18 - The military declare a republic in Greece; King George II is exiled.
1924/--/-- 18 - U.S. Congress investigates suspicious dealings in the Teapot Dome scandal.
1924/10/-- 18 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL WASHINGTON (4)
1925/--/-- 19 - Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925/--/-- 19 - American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1925/--/-- 19 - American writer John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1925/--/-- 19 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 19 - Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation.
1925/--/-- 19 - Black American dancer Josephine Baker stars in La Revue negre in Paris.
1925/--/-- 19 - Clarence Birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 19 - Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
1925/--/-- 19 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 19 - Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as shah of Iran.
1925/--/-- 19 - Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin.
1925/--/-- 19 - Swiss-born artist Paul Klee paints Fish Magic.
1925/--/-- 19 - The Locarno Pact finalizes the treaties between the World War I protagonists.
1925/--/-- 19 - The New Yorker magazine is founded in New York City.
1925/--/-- 19 - The all-black revue Runnin' Wild introduces the Charleston dance craze.
1925/10/-- 19 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL WASHINGTON (3)
1925/10/19 19 *** Ewing, Annie (Harlan) [Sister] & Harlan, Arthur - Married
1926/--/-- 20 - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe paints her flower portrait Black Iris.
1926/--/-- 20 - American golfer Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open and the British Open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 20 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 20 - Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona becomes president after a military coup in Portugal.
1926/--/-- 20 - Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926/--/-- 20 - Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926/--/-- 20 - English author A.A. Milne writes the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh.
1926/--/-- 20 - French troops in Morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by Abd el-Krim.
1926/--/-- 20 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926/--/-- 20 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1926/--/-- 20 - Nobile, Amundsen and Ellsworth pilot the airship Norge over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 20 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first airplane flight over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 20 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich premiers his First Symphony.
1926/--/-- 20 - The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 20 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is organized in Chicago.
1926/--/-- 20 - U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/09/27 20 *** Harlan, Arthur David [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, Arthur and Ewing, Annie (Harlan)
1926/10/-- 20 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1927/--/-- 21 - American dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 21 - American writer Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
1927/--/-- 21 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.
1927/--/-- 21 - Blackface singer Al Jolson appears in the first sound motion picture The Jazz Singer.
1927/--/-- 21 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 21 - Civil war in China
1927/--/-- 21 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting Pants on Philip.
1927/--/-- 21 - Dancer Martha Graham opens her first dance studio in New York City.
1927/--/-- 21 - Duke Ellington's jazz band stars at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York City.
1927/--/-- 21 - English novelist Virginia Woolf writes To The Lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 21 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designs the Turun Sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 21 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 21 - German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927/--/-- 21 - German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse publishes Steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 21 - Helen Newington Wills wins the Wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 21 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 21 - The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927/03/29 21 *** Wood, James Elvin [1st cousin once removed] - Died Wood family cem. - Clinton County KY
1927/10/-- 21 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1928/--/-- 22 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 22 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 22 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 22 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 22 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 22 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 22 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 22 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 22 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 22 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 22 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 22 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 22 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 22 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 22 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 22 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 22 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 22 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 22 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/07/14 22 *** Harlan, John Howard [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, Arthur and Ewing, Annie (Harlan) Born at home in Clinton Co., Kentucky
1928/08/13 22 *** Wood, David Reuben [2nd cousin] - Died
1928/10/-- 22 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1929/--/-- 23 - Alexander institutes absolute rule as king of Yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 23 - American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1929/--/-- 23 - American novelist William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury.
1929/--/-- 23 - British poet Robert Graves publishes his war memoir Goodbye To All That.
1929/--/-- 23 - Erich Maria Remarque publishes his war novel All Quiet On the Western Front.
1929/--/-- 23 - Ernest Hemingway writes the war novel A Farewell To Arms.
1929/--/-- 23 - French artist and writer Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles.
1929/--/-- 23 - Heinrich Himmler is appointed head of the SS, Hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 23 - Herbert C. Hoover (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1929/--/-- 23 - Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st U.S. president; Curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 23 - Jews and Arabs clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 23 - Seven Chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
1929/--/-- 23 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
1929/--/-- 23 - Stock Market crashes
1929/--/-- 23 - The Lateran Treaty creates the independent state of the Vatican City.
1929/--/-- 23 - The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is founded in New York City.
1929/--/-- 23 - The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 23 - The Workers Party of America is renamed the Communist Party of the United States.
1929/--/-- 23 - The first Academy Awards are presented; Wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 23 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/--/-- 24 - American artist Edward Hopper paints Early Sunday Morning.
1930/--/-- 24 - American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.
1930/--/-- 24 - American poet Hart Crane publishes The Bridge.
1930/--/-- 24 - Artist Grant Wood paints American Gothic.
1930/--/-- 24 - British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 24 - Carol II is proclaimed king of Romania.
1930/--/-- 24 - Dashiell Hammett publishes the detective novel The Maltese Falcon.
1930/--/-- 24 - English-born American writer W. H. Auden publishes his Poems.
1930/--/-- 24 - Getulio Vargas is appointed president of Brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 24 - Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 24 - Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's film The Blue Angel.
1930/--/-- 24 - Noel Coward's play Private Lives is produced in London.
1930/--/-- 24 - The British airship R101 crashes in France.
1930/--/-- 24 - The city of Constantinople is re-named Istanbul.
1930/--/-- 24 - Vannevar Bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 24 - Worldwide depression begins
1930/10/-- 24 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1931/--/-- 25 - American cartoonist Chester Gould creates the adventure comic strip Dick Tracy.
1931/--/-- 25 - American journalist and writer Damon Runyon publishes Guys and Dolls.
1931/--/-- 25 - American writer Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth.
1931/--/-- 25 - Auguste Piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 25 - Ben Shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 25 - Chicago gangster Al Capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 25 - Explorer George Hubert Wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the Arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 25 - Japanese forces occupy Manchuria.
1931/--/-- 25 - Lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 25 - Organic chemist W. H. Carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 25 - Radio astronomy begins when Karl Jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 25 - Spain is declared a republic; King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
1931/--/-- 25 - The Empire State Building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 25 - The Star-Spangled Banner becomes the U.S. national anthem.
1931/10/-- 25 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (3)
1932/--/-- 26 - American physicist Carl D. Anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 26 - American sculptor Alexander Calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 26 - American southern author Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road.
1932/--/-- 26 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of Portugal.
1932/--/-- 26 - Arab leader Ibn Saud founds the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1932/--/-- 26 - British author Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World.
1932/--/-- 26 - Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 26 - Eamon de Valera is elected president of the Republic of Ireland.
1932/--/-- 26 - Engelbert Dollfuss is elected chancellor of Austria.
1932/--/-- 26 - English physicist James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 26 - Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt pledges a New Deal.
1932/--/-- 26 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
1932/--/-- 26 - Revolution in Siam (Thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 26 - Sir Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
1932/--/-- 26 - The Bonus Army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in Washington, D.C.
1932/--/-- 26 - The Royal Shakespeare Theater opens at Stratford-on-Avon, England.
1932/--/-- 26 - The first particle accelerator is built at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.
1932/05/25 26 *** Ewing, Sarah Margaret [Niece] - Born to Ewing, John Bagby and Felkins, Allie Alice Caroline Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1932/10/-- 26 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1933/--/-- 27 - A fossilized skull of the prehistoric Steinheim man is found in Germany.
1933/--/-- 27 - Actor Charles Laughton stars in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII.
1933/--/-- 27 - Busby Berkeley choreographs the dances for the film Gold Diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 27 - Dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in the film Flying Down to Rio.
1933/--/-- 27 - Edwin Armstrong invents frequency modulation (FM) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 27 - Fiorello La Guardia is elected mayor of New York City for the first time.
1933/--/-- 27 - Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history.
1933/--/-- 27 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1933/--/-- 27 - French novelist and political activist Andre Malraux publishes Man's Fate.
1933/--/-- 27 - Fulgencio Batista leads a military coup against Gerardo Machado y Morales in Cuba.
1933/--/-- 27 - Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 27 - Joseph Goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the Nazi party.
1933/--/-- 27 - Mae West stars in the films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.
1933/--/-- 27 - Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling founds the National Unity party.
1933/--/-- 27 - President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany.
1933/--/-- 27 - Roosevelt begins "New Deal"
1933/--/-- 27 - Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. president; Garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 27 - The 21st Amendment ends the prohibition era in the U.S.
1933/--/-- 27 - The Marx Brothers star in the classic comedy film Duck Soup.
1933/--/-- 27 - The National Recovery Administration (NRA) is launched by President Roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 27 - The Nazis erect the first concentration camps in Germany.
1933/--/-- 27 - The Public Works Administration (PWA) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 27 - The Reichstag fire gives the Nazis a pretext for outlawing the German Communist party.
1933/--/-- 27 - The Stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in France.
1933/04/02 27 *** Booher, Doris Evangeline [Niece] - Born to Booher, Wellington Virgil and Ewing, Mary (Booher) Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky
1933/10/-- 27 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL WASHINGTON (1)
1934/--/-- 28 *** Ewing, Mariba Augusta (Mackey) [2nd cousin] - Bachelors - teaching Treveca College
1934/--/-- 28 - Adolf Hitler becomes "Fueher" of Germany
1934/--/-- 28 - Alexander, king of Yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son Peter II succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 28 - American cartoonist Al Capp begins the comic strip Li'l Abner.
1934/--/-- 28 - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is murdered by Austrian Nazis.
1934/--/-- 28 - Cole Porter writes the score for the Broadway musical Anything Goes.
1934/--/-- 28 - Drought leads to severe dust storms in the Dust Bowl region of the Great Plains.
1934/--/-- 28 - Elijah Muhammad becomes leader of the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims).
1934/--/-- 28 - Fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 28 - George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein found The School of American Ballet.
1934/--/-- 28 - Henry Miller publishes the Tropic of Cancer. (It is banned in the U.S. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 28 - Hitler becomes Fuhrer (leader) of Germany after Hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 28 - John Dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the FBI.
1934/--/-- 28 - Lazaro Cardenas is chosen by Plutarco Calles as president of Mexico.
1934/--/-- 28 - Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 28 - Mao Tse-tung leads the Chinese Communists on the Long March.
1934/--/-- 28 - Naturalist Charles W. Beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 28 - SA leader Ernst Roehm is assassinated on the orders of Hitler.
1934/--/-- 28 - Surrealist artist Rene Magritte paints The Human Condition.
1934/--/-- 28 - The British ocean liner Queen Mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 28 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 28 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is formed to protect U.S. investors.
1934/07/30 28 *** Harlan, Baylos Eugene [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, Arthur and Ewing, Annie (Harlan)
1934/10/-- 28 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1934/10/16 28 *** Ewing, James Morris [Nephew] - Born to Ewing, John Bagby and Felkins, Allie Alice Caroline
1934/10/30 28 *** Booher, Leah Vorees [Niece] - Born to Booher, Wellington Virgil and Ewing, Mary (Booher) Augusta, Bracken, KY
1935/--/-- 29 - American writer Thomas Wolfe publishes Of Time and the River.
1935/--/-- 29 - Arthur Dempster discovers U-235, the isotope of uranium used in atomic bombs.
1935/--/-- 29 - Child film actress Shirley Temple stars in The Little Colonel.
1935/--/-- 29 - Controversial Louisiana senator Huey P. Long is assassinated.
1935/--/-- 29 - Eduard Benes succeeds Tomas Masaryk as president of Czechoslovakia.
1935/--/-- 29 - Errol Flynn stars in the swashbuckling adventure film Captain Blood.
1935/--/-- 29 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs The 39 Steps.
1935/--/-- 29 - George Gershwin composes the modern American opera Porgy and Bess.
1935/--/-- 29 - Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935/--/-- 29 - Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1935/--/-- 29 - King of Swing Benny Goodman forms the Benny Goodman Trio.
1935/--/-- 29 - Leni Riefenstahl directs the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.
1935/--/-- 29 - Physicist Hideki Yukawa predicts the existence of the meson subatomic particle.
1935/--/-- 29 - Robert Sherwood's play The Petrified Forest is produced.
1935/--/-- 29 - Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt patents the first practical radar system.
1935/--/-- 29 - Social Security Act provides retirement insurance
1935/--/-- 29 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina.
1935/--/-- 29 - The Monopoly board game is patented in the U.S.
1935/--/-- 29 - The Moscow subway is opened.
1935/--/-- 29 - The Nuremberg Racial Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
1935/--/-- 29 - The monarchy is restored in Greece under George II.
1935/10/-- 29 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL DETROIT (4)
1935/11/14 30 *** Bagby, William Smith [Uncle] - Died
1936/--/-- 30 - Black athlete Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.
1936/--/-- 30 - Boulder Dam is completed in Arizona (it is renamed Hoover Dam in 1947).
1936/--/-- 30 - Edward VIII abdicates as king of Great Britain; he is succeeded by George VI.
1936/--/-- 30 - HItler and Mussolini announce the Rome-Berlin Axis (alliance).
1936/--/-- 30 - Henry R. Luce begins publishing Life magazine.
1936/--/-- 30 - Ioannis Metaxas establishes a dictatorship in Greece.
1936/--/-- 30 - Italy and Germany send military forces and aid to support Franco in Spain.
1936/--/-- 30 - Italy annexes Abyssinia (Ethiopia); Emperor Haile Selassie is exiled.
1936/--/-- 30 - Japan concludes the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany.
1936/--/-- 30 - John Maynard Keynes writes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
1936/--/-- 30 - Margaret Mitchell publishes her only novel Gone With the Wind.
1936/--/-- 30 - Olympic ice skater Sonja Henie turns professional.
1936/--/-- 30 - Spanish Civil War
1936/--/-- 30 - Stalin begins the Great Purge of Soviet Russia's political and military leadership.
1936/--/-- 30 - The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) begins the first public television service.
1936/--/-- 30 - The Soviet Union and the International Brigades support the Nationalists in Spain.
1936/--/-- 30 - The Spanish Civil War begins when General Franco leads a military revolt.
1936/--/-- 30 - The works of the composer Dmitry Shostakovich are denounced in Russia.
1936/01/-- 30 - Edward VIII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1936/06/12 30 *** Ewing, Mary Inez [Niece] - Born to Ewing, John Bagby and Felkins, Allie Alice Caroline
1936/10/-- 30 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1936/12/10 31 - George VI succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the abdication of E
1937/--/-- 31 - American author John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men.
1937/--/-- 31 - Anastasio Somoza Garcia becomes president of Nicaragua.
1937/--/-- 31 - Aviatrix Amelia Earhart is lost during a flight across the Pacific.
1937/--/-- 31 - Ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn debuts in Giselle at Sadler's Wells, London.
1937/--/-- 31 - Danish author Isak Dinesen publishes her autobiography Out of Africa.
1937/--/-- 31 - Dow Chemical develops plastics
1937/--/-- 31 - English writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the fantasy novel The Hobbit.
1937/--/-- 31 - Farouk succeeds Fuad I as king of Egypt.
1937/--/-- 31 - Frank Lloyd Wright begins building the Taliesin West complex in Arizona.
1937/--/-- 31 - French filmmaker Jean Renoir directs Grand Illusion.
1937/--/-- 31 - German aircraft supporting Franco's forces destroy the town of Guernica in Spain.
1937/--/-- 31 - Joe Louis the Brown Bomber wins the heavyweight boxing championship.
1937/--/-- 31 - Nationalist and Communist forces unite to combat the Japanese in China.
1937/--/-- 31 - Neville Chamberlain succeeds Stanley Baldwin as prime minister of Britain.
1937/--/-- 31 - Swing bandleader Artie Shaw records Begin the Beguine.
1937/--/-- 31 - The Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII) marries the divorcee Mrs. Simpson.
1937/--/-- 31 - The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J.
1937/--/-- 31 - The Golden Gate Bridge is opened in San Francisco.
1937/--/-- 31 - The Japanese invasion of China begins the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937/05/02 31 - George VI crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Cosm
1937/06/29 31 *** Harlan, Norman Ewing [Nephew] - Born to Harlan, Arthur and Ewing, Annie (Harlan)
1937/08/03 31 *** Booher, Ralph Ewing [Nephew] - Born to Booher, Wellington Virgil and Ewing, Mary (Booher) Covington, Kenton, KY
1937/10/-- 31 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1938/--/-- 32 - A coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the cost of Africa.
1938/--/-- 32 - American composer Aaron Copland writes the ballet score for Billy the Kid.
1938/--/-- 32 - American singer Ella Fitzgerald records A-tisket, A-tasket.
1938/--/-- 32 - British prime minister Neville Chamberlain declares "peace for our time."
1938/--/-- 32 - Chamberlain and Daladier appease Hitler at the Munich Conference.
1938/--/-- 32 - Chester Carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic dry-copying process.
1938/--/-- 32 - Don Budge becomes the first player to win the Grand Slam (4 tennis championships).
1938/--/-- 32 - General Franco isolates the Republican forces in Spain and attacks Catalonia.
1938/--/-- 32 - German chemist Otto Hahn discovers the principles of nuclear fission.
1938/--/-- 32 - Germany occupies the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
1938/--/-- 32 - Hitler invades Austria; a union (Anschluss) of Austria and Germany is proclaimed.
1938/--/-- 32 - Hungarian Lajos Biro invents the first practical ball-point pen.
1938/--/-- 32 - Ismet Inonu succeeds Kemal Atuturk as president of Turkey.
1938/--/-- 32 - Jewish property is attacked in Germany in the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
1938/--/-- 32 - Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud flees to England to escape Nazi persecution.
1938/--/-- 32 - Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds causes panic in the U.S.
1938/--/-- 32 - Swing musician Glenn Miller organizes his band.
1938/--/-- 32 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates U.S. subversives.
1938/--/-- 32 - The U.S. and Britain send aid to the Chinese in their war against Japan.
1938/--/-- 32 - Thornton Wilder wins the Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town.
1938/--/-- 32 - Walt Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown.
1938/09/28 32 *** Ewing, Robert - Died Peolia Cemetery Clinton County KY
1938/10/-- 32 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
In 1905 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
By 1938 Transportation was by:
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
in addition.
By 1938 Transportation by:
Horse
Balloon
had been discontinued.
In 1905 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1905 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
By 1938 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Refrigeration
in addition.
In 1905 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1905 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1905 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
By 1938 War Making was by:
tank
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
in addition.
By 1938 War Making by:
Calvary
had been discontinued.
In 1905 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
By 1938 Navigation was by:
Radio Signals
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:27