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1915
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As of the start of 1915, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Below, the events of World War I have the WWI prefix, january 1 WWI, The Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat with the loss of 547 crew. The Battle of Broken Hill, an ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales. Harry Houdini performs a straitjacket escape performance, january 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of 11,690 feet, carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger in a fixed-wing aircraft. January 12 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote, a Fool There Was premières in the United States starring Theda Bara as a femme fatale, she quickly becomes one of early cinemas most sensational stars. January 13 – The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of LAquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI, various agencies estimate the number of people killed to be 29, 978–32,610. January 18 – Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China are made, january 19 Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. WWI, German Zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in England for the first time. January 21 – Kiwanis is founded in Detroit, as The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers, january 24 – WW I, Battle of Dogger Bank, British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet, sinking the armoured cruiser SMS Blücher. Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its campus from Oxford. January 26 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the United States Congress, january 26 – WWI, Ottoman Army begins the Raid on the Suez Canal. January 27 – WWI, Military casualties begin arriving at the Hôpital Temporaire dArc-en-Barrois, january 28 – An act of the United States Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, began in 1790, as a military branch. February – While working as a cook at New Yorks Sloane Hospital for Women under a name, Typhoid Mary infects 25 people. February 4 – The Maritz Rebellion of disaffected Boere against the government of the Union of South Africa ends with the surrender of remaining rebels, february 8 – The controversial film, The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles. It will be the film for around 25 years. February 18 – WWI, Germany regards waters around the British Isles to be a war zone from this date, february 20 – In San Francisco the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened. March – The 1915 Palestine locust infestation breaks out in Palestine, March 3 – The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, is founded in the United States. March 11 – WWI, British armed merchantman HMS Bayano is sunk in the North Channel off the coast of Scotland by Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-27
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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1913 in the United States
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Events from the year 1913 in the United States. President, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson Vice President, vacant, Thomas R. February 1 – New York Citys Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the worlds largest train station. February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose, February 17 – The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays the works of artists who are to some of the most influential painters of the early 20th Century. March 3 – The Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 takes place in Washington, march 4 Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as the 28th President of the United States. The U. S. Department of Commerce and U. S. Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries and U. S. Coast, the first U. S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds is passed. March 7 – The British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, march 13 – Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States. April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed, april 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators. April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City, designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world at this date and for more than a decade after. April 26 – Mary Phagan is raped and strangled on the premises of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, leo Frank is tried and convicted for the crime. May – The Paul Émile Chabas painting September Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of a Chicago art gallery. May 14 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, June – The first edition of the Christian esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross is published in the United States. June 13 – An International Railway trolley and passengers are buried under the contents of a garbage chute that breaks in Niagara Falls. June 15 – Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines concludes with U. S. troops under General John J. Pershing taking Bug Bagsak from defending Moro rebels, killing at least 500. July 3 – The 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of American Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, July 10 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. September 8 – The largest commercial building in the world opens in Saint Louis, Missouri. The Railroad Exchange building houses 31 acres under one roof, and its central tenant, September 19 – Francis Ouimet wins the U. S. Open by 5 strokes, becoming the first amateur to ever win the event
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1914 in the United States
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Events from the year 1914 in the United States. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, January 5 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a days labor. January 9 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded at Howard University in Washington, february 13 – Copyright, In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. April 9 – Tampico Affair, involving U. S. Navy sailors in Mexico, April 11 – Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. April 14 – The city of Irving, Texas, is incorporated, April 20 Ludlow Massacre, The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 24 people. President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to use force in Mexico in reaction to the Tampico Affair. April 21 – United States occupation of Veracruz,2,300 U. S. Navy sailors and Marines from the South Atlantic fleet land in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. The Ypiranga incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an embargo against Mexico by preventing the German cargo steamer SS Ypiranga from unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port. On April 22 Mexico for the time being ends diplomatic relations with the U. S, April 23 – The baseball stadium Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field, opens in Chicago. May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mothers Day proclamation, june 1 – Woodrow Wilsons envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. July 4 – Lexington Avenue bombing,4 people are killed in New York City when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely in the plotters apartment, July 11 Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox. USS Nevada, the United States Navys first super-dreadnought battleship, is launched, over 5,000 attend a rally in Union Square, Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate the anarchists killed in the July 4 Lexington Avenue bombing. July 18 – The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, August 1 – New York Stock Exchange closed due to war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges are already closed. August 4 – German troops invade neutral Belgium at 8,02 AM, britain declares war on Germany for this violation of Belgian neutrality. This move effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Commonwealth, August 15 The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the steamship U. S. S. A dismissed servant kills seven people at architect Frank Lloyd Wrights studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin, september 1 – The last known passenger pigeon Martha dies in the Cincinnati Zoo. September 26 – The U. S. Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act, september 30 – The Flying Squadron is established to promote the temperance movement. October 7 – Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston, november 16 – A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business
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1916 in the United States
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Events from the year 1916 in the United States. January 24 In Browning, Montana, the drops from +6. 7°C to −48. 8°C in one day. Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the national income tax, January – The Anti-Militarism Committee changes its name to the Anti-Preparedness Committee, later in the year becoming the American Union Against Militarism. February 11 Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert. March 3 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band begin playing at Schillers Cafe in Chicago, until June 5 it is known as Steins Dixie Jass Band. March 6 – Newton D. Baker appointed Secretary of War, march 8–9 – Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U. S. soldiers. A garrison of the U. S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back, march 15 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U. S. -Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa, the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory. March 16 – Mexican Revolution The U. S. 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt for Villa. United States Army aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN-3s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over Mexico. April 20 The Escadrille Américaine, later to be known as the Lafayette Escadrille, is established as an American volunteer unit of the French Air Force and their first aerial victory is claimed on May 18 by Kiffin Rockwell. The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park, defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings, may 5 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic begins when companies of the United States Marine Corps land in the Dominican Republic. May 15 – Lynching of Jesse Washington, Jesse Washington, a farmhand, is brutally lynched in Robinson, Texas by a crowd of white people. May 19 – Norman Rockwells first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, may 22 – The case of United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola is decided. June 3 – Division of Militia Affairs renamed Militia Bureau, June 5 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. June 15 – U. S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America and this year also, Robert Baden-Powell founds the Wolf Cubs in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the U. S. July 1 – The United States Marine Corps take control of Santo Domingo and this event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws. July 8–16 – Massive flooding caused by two hurricanes devastates western North Carolina, july 15 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products. July 22 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 injuring 40
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1917 in the United States
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Events from the year 1917 in the United States. January 22 – World War I, President Woodrow Wilson calls for peace without victory in Europe, january 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $30 million. An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings, at one meeting attended by 7,000 people,20,000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, a foe of prostitution,300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration. When Smith asks if they take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laugh derisively. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter, january 28 – The United States ends its search for Pancho Villa. January 30 – Pershings troops in Mexico begin withdrawing back to the United States and they reach Columbus, New Mexico February 5. February 3 – World War I, The United States breaks off relations with Germany. March 1 – The U. S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public, march 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. March 4 U. S. President Woodrow Wilson begins his second term, jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives. March 7 – Livery Stable Blues, recorded with Dixie Jazz Band One Step on February 26 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, on August 17 the band records Tiger Rag. March 8 – The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters, march 31 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $25 million to Denmark. April 2 – World War I, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany, April 6 – An explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania kills 133. May 18 – World War I, The Selective Service Act passes the U. S. Congress, may 21 – Over 300 acres are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917. May 26 – A tornado strikes Mattoon, Illinois, causing devastation, June 4 – The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded, Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography. Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past, herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. June 5 – World War I, Conscription begins in the United States, June 8 – Speculator Mine Disaster, a fire at the Granite Mountain and Speculator ore mine outside Butte, Montana kills 168 workers. June 15 – The U. S. enacts the Espionage Act, July 1 – A labor dispute ignites a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which leaves 250 dead
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Flag of the United States
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The flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States. S. Nicknames for the flag include The Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, the current design of the U. S. flag is its 27th, the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4,1959, the 50-star flag was ordered by the then president Eisenhower on August 21,1959, and was adopted in July 1960. It is the version of the U. S. flag and has been in use for over 56 years. At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, the flag contemporaneously known as the Continental Colors has historically been referred to as the first national flag. The name Grand Union was first applied to the Continental Colors by George Preble in his 1872 history of the American flag, the flag closely resembles the British East India Company flag of the era, and Sir Charles Fawcett argued in 1937 that the company flag inspired the design. Both flags could have been constructed by adding white stripes to a British Red Ensign. However, an East India Company flag could have nine to 13 stripes. In any case, both the stripes and the stars have precedents in classical heraldry, Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year. While scholars still argue about this, tradition holds that the new flag was first hoisted in June 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment. The first official U. S. flag flown during battle was on August 3,1777, Massachusetts reinforcements brought news of the adoption by Congress of the official flag to Fort Schuyler. A voucher is extant that Capt. Swartwout of Dutchess County was paid by Congress for his coat for the flag, the 1777 resolution was most probably meant to define a naval ensign. In the late 18th century, the notion of a flag did not yet exist. The flag resolution appears between other resolutions from the Marine Committee, on May 10,1779, Secretary of the Board of War Richard Peters expressed concern it is not yet settled what is the Standard of the United States. However, the term, Standard, referred to a standard for the Army of the United States. Each regiment was to carry the standard in addition to its regimental standard. The national standard was not a reference to the national or naval flag, the appearance was up to the maker of the flag. Some flag makers arranged the stars into one big star, in a circle or in rows, one arrangement features 13 five-pointed stars arranged in a circle, with the stars arranged pointing outwards from the circle, the so-called Betsy Ross flag
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Timeline of United States history
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This is a timeline of United States history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of the United States, some dates before September 14,1752, when the British government adopted the Gregorian calendar, may be given in the Old Style
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1915 World Series
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In the 1915 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to one. In their only World Series before 1950, the Phillies won Game 1 before being swept the rest of the way and it was 65 years before the Phillies won their next Series game. The Red Sox pitching was so strong in the 1915 series that the young Babe Ruth was not used on the mound and only made a single pinch-hitting appearance. Red Sox owner Joseph Lannin lost the toss for home field advantage. The league presidents selected the umpires, and it was announced that J. G. Taylor Spink would be one of the official scorers, one controversy surrounded the allocation of tickets to the Red Sox Royal Rooters fan club. Each visiting team was allocated 200 tickets, but the Red Sox requested an additional 400 on behalf of their supporters, the Phillies Baker Bowl sat only 20,000, and their above-cited owner, William Baker, refused to allocate additional tickets for visiting fans. The matter was resolved by National Commission chairman Garry Herrmann, who gave the Red Sox tickets from the Commissions own Series allocation. The Phillies won Game 1, 3–1, although New York Times reporter Hugh Fullerton wrote of the future 300+ game-winning Hall of Famer, Alexander pitched a bad game of ball. He had little or nothing in his review of the game, headed Nothing, the Times also reported that a crowd of 10,000 gathered in Manhattans Times Square to view a real-time mechanical recreation of the game on a giant scoreboard sponsored by the newspaper. The Phillies were not to win another game until 1977. The Red Sox swept Games 2–5, all by one run, in Game 2, Woodrow Wilson became the first U. S. President to attend a World Series game. This was the second year that a Boston team beat a Philadelphia team in the World Series after the Braves had swept the Athletics the year before. Unlike the 1913 Series, where the team won only one of the five games. In Fenway or Philadelphias Baker Bowl, it might have been a run or at least an extra-base hit which might have turned the Series around. The Phillies had packed some extra outfield seats into their already-small bandbox of a ballfield and this proved crucial in the decisive Game 5, in which Bostons Harry Hooper twice homered over the moved-in center field fence and Duffy Lewis followed suit. In Braves Field, those would have been extra-base hits at best, AL Boston Red Sox vs. NL Philadelphia Phillies The Red Sox won on three home runs by two of their outfielders, two cheapies by Harry Hooper and one by Duffy Lewis. Those were the only round-trippers in the entire Series, the first four games being pitchers duels,1915 World Series, Boston Red Sox over Philadelphia Phillies Cohen, Richard M. Neft, David S. The World Series, Complete Play-By-Play of Every Game, 1903–1989, archived from the original on 2008
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