1910
  • King Edward VII dies
  • Scott heads for South Pole
  • Halley's comet passed Earth
  • Campfire Girls are founded
  • Boy Scout of America founded
  • Morgan wins Nobel Prize
  • Washing Machines debute
  • Philadelphia Athletics win Series
  • 1st Father's Day observed
  • Glacier National Park opens
  • Japan takes Korea
  • Portugal becomes a Republic
  • Jazz is born
  • S. Africa establishes Union
  • Roller Skates debutes
  • Mark Twain dies

    1911
  • China becomes a Republic
  • King George V. is crowned
  • Curie win 2nd Nobel Prize
  • Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
  • Jigsaw puzzles are the craze
  • Bingham discoves Inca City
  • Browning automatic pistol debutes
  • Crisco oil is introduced
  • Chevrolet Motors is founded
  • The Turkey Trot is popular
  • 1st film studio founded in CA
  • Philadelphia Athletics win Series


    1912
  • Woodrow Wilson President
  • Thomas Marshall Vice President
  • Titanic sinks
  • Vitamins A & B discovered
  • Girl Scouts founded
  • Bunny Hop is the craze
  • Boston Red Sox win Series
  • 1st Parachute Jump successful
  • New Mexico become 47th State
  • Arizona becomes 48th State
  • Scott reaches South Pole
  • Yoshihito becomes Emperor
  • SOS singal adopted

    1913
  • 16th Amendment, Income Tax
  • 17th Amendment, Senate Elections
  • Dept. of Labor founded
  • X-ray tube invented
  • Brillo pads hit market
  • Peppermint Life Saver debute
  • Parcel Post is created
  • Federal Reserve established
  • Philadelphia Althletics win Series
  • Notre Dame wins in football
  • 93 minutes to assemble a Ford car
  • King George of Greece killed
  • Mona Lisa is recovered
  • Railroad Station open in N.Y.

    1914
  • WORLD WAR I begins
  • 4-H Club is founded
  • Last Passenger Pigeon dies
  • Pyrex is introduced
  • Coast to Coast Telephone begins
  • Hagen wins US Tennis Open
  • Boston Braves win World Series
  • Paul Bunyan & Babe introduced
  • Panama Canal opens

    1915
  • U boats sink US ships
  • US Coast Guard established
  • Rocky Mt. National Park founded
  • Ford produces millionth car
  • Boston Red Sox win World Series
  • Major earthquake hits Italy
  • Italy joins Allies in War
  • Propaganda War started in Germany

    1916
  • Woodrow Wilson President
  • Thomas Marshall Vice President
  • National Park Service created
  • Polio strikes 28,000 people
  • Rankin 1st woman To US House
  • Peace Mission Movement created
  • Piggly Wiggly 1st food chain
  • Federal Highway Act passed
  • PGA established
  • Boston Red Sox win World Series
  • Coca Cola design bottle debutes
  • Arabs bid for independence

    1917
  • US joins in the World War
  • Mata Hari excuted in France
  • Buffalo Bill Cody dies
  • Virgin Islands, US territory
  • Puerto Rico, US territory
  • Select Service Act begins
  • Women take on mens jobs
  • Union Carbide formed
  • Phillips Petroleum formed
  • Chicago White Sox win series
  • NFL is formed

    1918
  • War Ends
  • Germany becomes a republic
  • Russia gets new Capital
  • Influenza kills 500,000
  • Pop up toaster is patented
  • Food rationing begins
  • Airmail service begins
  • Boston Red Sox win series
  • Raggedy Ann in introduced
  • Romanov dynasty murdered
  • British women get the vote
  • Red Baron dies


    1919
  • Armistice Day Observed
  • Frigidaire is introduced
  • RCA is formed
  • Cincinnati Reds win Series
  • United Artist is formed
  • Rutherford splits the Atom

  • HALLEY's COMET
    Halley's Comet will visit the earth just 13 millions miles above the atmosphere on 20 May 1910. Astronomer, Sir Edmond Halley (1656-1742) correctly predicted when it would appear and hence was named Halley's Comet. Many people, especially in the US fear it is the end of the world, and passengers on a moving trolly jumped off when a brick hit the roof. They would shout "Comet" and leap. The next time the comet will appear over the heavens will be in 1986.


    Not yet Nationwide, Spokane, Washington celebrates an idea that Mrs. John B. Dodd had to celebrate Father's Day. She wants to set aside the third Sunday of June as this Holiday and she hopes it will spread nationwide.

    W. DeBois was a key figure in developing the NAACP, (National Advancement of Colored People) in 1910. He was 48 years old at the time and devoted his life fighting for equality for the black people in the US. He was also a Professor at Atlantic University and is working fulltime with the NAACP headquarters.

    The Mono Lisa, a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, was stole on 22 August, 1911 from the french museum, Louvre. Da Vinci, from Florence, Italy, painted the Mona Lisa in 1504 at the age of 52. The painting was stolen during the night and the Louvre personnel could not understand how someone could have stolen it with their extensive security system in place.

    The first Hollywood Studio was formed in October, 1911 in California by the Nestor Film Company. With the sunshine year round, it provides excellent lighting for filming and fast becomes the favorite place to make pictures. Nestor Film Company could be found on Sunset and Gower and the building use to be a tavern that was shut down.

    The sculpture of Queen Nefertiti was found in December 1912 by a German archaeologist. It is believed to be a life like portrait of her done about 3,000 years ago in the time that Pharaoh Akhenaton IV, her husband, ruled. They lived in around 1360 B.C.
    One shot started the European War. It was August 4, 1914, at 11 o'clock that Great Britian declared war on Germany when an assassin on 28 June killed the heir to the Austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Germany was trying to get as many colonies under them and Britian wanted to protect its empire.

    General Joseph Joffre and his men drove the Germans back when they decided to invade France via Belguim. Shortly after the attack by the allies protecting Paris, the Germans were ordered to retreat to the Aisne River. There they dug themselves into trenches as did the allies.

    He was known as Buffalo Bill to the world and would supply buffalo meat to the crew building the railroad. William F. Cody died January 10, 1917 at the age of 70 years. He started a show called the Wild West Show in 1883 with Indian fights and stagecoach raids.


    Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron died April 21, 1918 in a dog fight in Somme. He was a feared German Ace pilot and got his name the Red Baron from a red Fokke Dr. 1 triplane he flew.




    The War is over! On 11 November 1918 an armistice had been agreed to and at 11 o'clock the guns stopped firing and church bells rang. President Woodrow Wilson published his statement of war aims in the form of 14 points. They included free and open negotiations between nations, reduction of weapons of war, free trade and freedom of the seas, and restoration of lands occupied by Germany. The last point was establishing the League of Nations.



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