...Date... AGE Event
1896/--/-- -1 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- -1 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- -1 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- -1 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- -1 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- -1 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- -1 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1896/12/30 0 *** Booher, Robert Chester - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1897/--/-- 0 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 0 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 0 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 0 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 0 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 0 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 0 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 0 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 0 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 0 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 0 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 0 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1898/--/-- 1 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 1 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 1 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 1 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 1 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 1 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 1 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 1 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 1 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 1 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 1 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 1 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 1 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 1 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 1 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 1 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1898/03/10 1 *** Booher, Wellington Virgil [Brother] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine
1899/--/-- 2 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 2 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 2 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 2 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 2 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 2 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 2 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 2 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 2 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1900/--/-- 3 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 3 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 3 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 3 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 3 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 3 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 3 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 3 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 3 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 3 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 3 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 3 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 3 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 3 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 3 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 3 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1900/05/04 3 *** Booher, Edwin Raymond [Brother] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Clinton County, Kentucky
1901/--/-- 4 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia.
1901/--/-- 4 - A stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi is discovered in Susa, Iran.
1901/--/-- 4 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 4 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the National League.
1901/--/-- 4 - Andrew Carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 4 - Britain incorporates Ashanti territory into the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1901/--/-- 4 - English author Beatrix Potter publishes her children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1901/--/-- 4 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and Newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 4 - King C. Gillette founds the American Safety Razor Company.
1901/--/-- 4 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 4 - President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 4 - Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII.
1901/--/-- 4 - Russia occupies Manchuria in north-east China.
1901/--/-- 4 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1901/--/-- 4 - Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of his five Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
1901/--/-- 4 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's Blue Period begins.
1901/--/-- 4 - Temperance advocate Carry Nation uses a hatchet to attack a Kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 4 - The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 4 - The first U.S. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 4 - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1901/--/-- 4 - Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
1901/--/-- 4 - Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs help found the American Socialist party.
1901/01/02 4 - Edward VII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1902/--/-- 5 - American artist Robert Henri paints the New York street scene West 57th Street.
1902/--/-- 5 - Conan Doyle writes the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 5 - English author Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
1902/--/-- 5 - French filmmaker Georges Melies produces A Trip to the Moon.
1902/--/-- 5 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 5 - Maksim Gorky's The Lower Depths is produced at the Moscow Art Theater.
1902/--/-- 5 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1902/--/-- 5 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 5 - The Photo-Secession group is founded in New York by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 5 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the South African War.
1902/02/04 5 *** Booher, Sallie Jane [Sister] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1902/08/-- 5 - Edward VII crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India at Wes
1903/--/-- 6 - Alexander, King of Serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by Peter I.
1903/--/-- 6 - American author Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
1903/--/-- 6 - American novelist Henry James publishes The Ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 6 - Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman is produced in London.
1903/--/-- 6 - Colonel Francis Younghusband leads a British military expedition into Tibet.
1903/--/-- 6 - Edwin S. Porter directs the pioneering Western film The Great Train Robbery.
1903/--/-- 6 - Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
1903/--/-- 6 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 6 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 6 - Panama declares its independence from Columbia; the U.S. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 6 - The Rolls-Royce automobile company is founded in Britain.
1903/--/-- 6 - The U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal Zone.
1903/--/-- 6 - The first World Series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 6 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 6 - Wright Bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 6 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (3) AL BOSTON (5)
1904/--/-- 7 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 7 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- 7 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- 7 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- 7 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- 7 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- 7 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 7 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- 7 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- 7 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/01/26 7 *** Booher, Jonathan Pickens [Brother] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Brown's Cross Roads, Clinton, Kentucky
1905/--/-- 8 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 8 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 8 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 8 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 8 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 8 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 8 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 8 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 8 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 8 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 8 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 8 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 8 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 8 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 8 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 8 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 8 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 8 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 8 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/05/10 8 *** Booher, Frank Harlan [Brother] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1905/10/-- 8 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1906/--/-- 9 - British author John Galsworthy publishes the first novel of The Forsythe Saga.
1906/--/-- 9 - H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 9 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traverses the Northwest Passage.
1906/--/-- 9 - The Aga Khan III forms the All-India Moslim League.
1906/--/-- 9 - The Dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 9 - The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 9 - Under the Platt Amendment U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 9 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle leads to the U.S. Pure Foods and Drugs Act.
1906/10/-- 9 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1907/--/-- 10 - A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia.
1907/--/-- 10 - Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
1907/--/-- 10 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge writes The Playboy of the Western World.
1907/--/-- 10 - Lee De Forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 10 - Oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the Union.
1907/--/-- 10 - Rasputin gains influence at the court of Russian emperor Nicholas II.
1907/--/-- 10 - The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
1907/--/-- 10 - The first Ziegfeld Follies are staged in New York City.
1907/04/25 10 *** Booher, Benjamin Horace [Brother] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1907/10/-- 10 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (0)
1908/--/-- 11 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 11 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 11 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- 11 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- 11 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- 11 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 11 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 11 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 11 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- 11 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- 11 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- 11 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- 11 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 11 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- 11 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- 11 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- 11 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- 11 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/10/-- 11 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1908/11/03 11 *** Booher, Georgia Belle [Sister] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Brown's Cross Roads, Clinton, Kentucky
1909/--/-- 12 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 12 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 12 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 12 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 12 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 12 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 12 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 12 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 12 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 12 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/10/-- 12 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 13 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 13 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 13 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 13 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 13 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 13 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 13 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 13 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 13 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 13 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 13 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 13 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 13 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 13 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 13 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 13 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/10/-- 13 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1910/11/10 13 *** Booher, Samuel Porter [Brother] & Guffey, Myrtie Elma - Married
1911/--/-- 14 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 14 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 14 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 14 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 14 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 14 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 14 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 14 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 14 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 14 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 14 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 14 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 14 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 14 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 14 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 14 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 14 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 14 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/06/02 14 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 14 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/10/05 14 *** Booher, Marvin Pauline [Brother] - Born to Booher, George Washington and Choate, Frelia Clementine Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1912/--/-- 15 - American Indian Jim Thorpe wins the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 15 - American author Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1912/--/-- 15 - American writer Willa Cather publishes her first novel Alexander's Bridge.
1912/--/-- 15 - Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 15 - Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler publishes The Neurotic Constitution.
1912/--/-- 15 - British explorers under Scott reach the South Pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 15 - French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase.
1912/--/-- 15 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 15 - Morocco is divided between France and Spain after the second Moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 15 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 15 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 15 - Piltdown man is discovered in Britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 15 - Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky choreographs and dances in The Afternoon of the Faun.
1912/--/-- 15 - The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
1912/--/-- 15 - The liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 15 - Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the U.S. presidency under the Bull Moose ticket.
1912/02/23 15 *** Booher, son stillborn [Nephew] - Born to Booher, Samuel Porter and Guffey, Myrtie Elma Clinton County, Kentucky
1912/02/23 15 *** Booher, son stillborn [Nephew] - Died Clinton County, Kentucky Clinton County, Kentucky
1912/10/-- 15 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL BOSTON (4)
1913/--/-- 16 - American poet Robert Frost publishes A Boy's Will.
1913/--/-- 16 - Bertrand Russell and A.E. Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica.
1913/--/-- 16 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 16 - English novelist D.H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers.
1913/--/-- 16 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913/--/-- 16 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring causes a scandal at the Paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 16 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 16 - King George I of Greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by Constantine I
1913/--/-- 16 - Marcel Proust writes the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
1913/--/-- 16 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at Lambarene in Africa.
1913/--/-- 16 - Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 16 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille.
1913/--/-- 16 - Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb found the political journal The New Statesman.
1913/--/-- 16 - The constructivism art movement begins in Russia.
1913/--/-- 16 - The island of Crete is united with Greece.
1913/--/-- 16 - The second Balkan War begins with a Bulgarian attack on Serbia.
1913/--/-- 16 - Victoriano Huerta leads a military coup in Mexico; president Francisco Madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 16 - Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president; Marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 16 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1913/10/-- 16 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1913/11/22 16 *** Booher, Ruby Nell [Niece] - Born to Booher, Samuel Porter and Guffey, Myrtie Elma Clinton County, Kentucky
1914/--/-- 17 - A British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton is marooned in the Antarctic.
1914/--/-- 17 - A German fleet defeats the British at Coronel but is decimated at the Falklands.
1914/--/-- 17 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating World War I.
1914/--/-- 17 - Austrian forces invade Serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 17 - Black composer W.C. Handy writes the St. Louis Blues.
1914/--/-- 17 - Charlie Chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 17 - France, Russia and Britain (the Allies) are at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1914/--/-- 17 - George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 17 - German forces invade Belgium and France but are halted at the Marne.
1914/--/-- 17 - German submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on Allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 17 - Japan joins the Allies and captures the German base of Tsingtao in China.
1914/--/-- 17 - Mack Sennett produces comedy films starring the Keystone Kops.
1914/--/-- 17 - Parisian couturier Coco Chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 17 - President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality in World War I.
1914/--/-- 17 - Russian forces invade East Prussia but are defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 17 - The Panama Canal is completed, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1914/--/-- 17 - Turkey declares war on the Allies; Britain annexes Turkish Cyprus.
1914/--/-- 17 - U.S. Marines land at Veracruz in Mexico; President Huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 17 - World War I begins
1914/10/-- 17 - World Series NL BOSTON (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (0)
1915/--/-- 18 - A German submarine torpedoes the British liner Lusitania; 124 Americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 18 - Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
1915/--/-- 18 - Anglo-French forces land at Gallipoli in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 18 - Austrian writer Franz Kafka publishes The Metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 18 - D. W. Griffith's movie The Birth of a Nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 18 - Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa lead rebellions against Venustiano Carranza in Mexico.
1915/--/-- 18 - English author Somerset Maugham publishes Of Human Bondage.
1915/--/-- 18 - German Zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on Britain.
1915/--/-- 18 - Italy joins the Allies and invades Austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 18 - President Wilson recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza.
1915/--/-- 18 - Serbia is overrun by the combined forces of Austria, Germany and Bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 18 - The Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) fight at Gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 18 - The Dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 18 - The Germans use poison gas for the first time at Ypres on the Western Front.
1915/--/-- 18 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 18 - War poet Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/06/13 18 *** Booher, William Leroy [Brother] & Bybee, Mattie Lee - Married
1915/07/06 18 *** Booher, Robert Perry [Nephew] - Born to Booher, Jesse Severe and Higginbotham, Martha Helen
1915/10/-- 18 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/--/-- 19 - Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
1916/--/-- 19 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli after strong Turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 19 - American poet Carl Sandburg publishes his first book Chicago Poems.
1916/--/-- 19 - British forces assault the German line at the Somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 19 - German assaults at Verdun are repulsed by the French with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 19 - James Joyce publishes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1916/--/-- 19 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
1916/--/-- 19 - Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 19 - Margaret Sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 19 - North Sea storms flood lowlands in the Netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 19 - T. Tzara DADA
1916/--/-- 19 - The British and German fleets clash at the Battle of Jutland.
1916/--/-- 19 - The Easter Rising in Dublin is suppressed within a week by the British.
1916/--/-- 19 - The Russian Brusilov Offensive meets with success on the Eastern Front.
1916/--/-- 19 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 19 - U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 19 - U.S. troops under Pershing invade Mexico in retaliation for raids by Pancho Villa.
1916/09/08 19 *** Booher, Mable Imogene [Niece] - Born to Booher, Jesse Severe and Higginbotham, Martha Helen Clinton County, Kentucky
1916/10/-- 19 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/12/08 19 *** Booher, Aubrey Orestes [Nephew] - Born to Booher, William Leroy and Bybee, Mattie Lee Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma
1916/12/23 19 *** Booher, Beatrice Eileen [Niece] - Born to Booher, Samuel Porter and Guffey, Myrtie Elma Brown's Cross Roads, Clinton, Kentucky
1917/--/-- 20 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- 20 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- 20 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 20 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 20 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 20 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- 20 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- 20 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- 20 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- 20 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- 20 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 20 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- 20 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- 20 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- 20 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- 20 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- 20 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- 20 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- 20 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- 20 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 20 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- 20 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- 20 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- 20 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 20 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- 20 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- 20 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 20 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/10/-- 20 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1918/--/-- 21 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 21 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 21 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 21 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 21 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 21 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 21 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 21 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 21 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 21 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 21 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 21 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 21 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 21 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 21 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 21 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 21 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 21 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 21 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/05/17 21 *** Booher, Nina Marie [Niece] - Born to Booher, William Leroy and Bybee, Mattie Lee Burkesville, Cumberland, Kentucky
1918/06/24 21 *** Booher, Robert Perry [Nephew] - Died
1918/09/28 21 *** Booher, Robert Chester - Died Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1918/10/-- 21 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
In 1896 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1918 Transportation was by:
Balloon
Propeller airplane
in addition.
In 1896 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1918 Communications was by:
Telephone
in addition.
In 1896 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1896 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1896 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1896 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
By 1918 War Making was by:
tank
TNT
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
in addition.
By 1918 War Making by:
Calvary
had been discontinued.
In 1896 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:02