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May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson: The U.S. Supreme Court introduces the "separate but equal" doctrine and upholds segregation.
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May 18 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
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December 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium.
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March 6
Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin.
Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
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August 14 – Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
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September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
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March 10 – A Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
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September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
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May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
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May 11 – Albert Einstein submits his doctoral dissertation On the Motion of Small Particles..., in which he explains Brownian motion. In the course of the year, Einstein publishes 4 papers, formulates the theory of special relativity and explains the photoelectric effect by quantization. 1905 is regarded as his "miracle year".
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The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for tuberculosis is first developed.
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31 August – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the establishment of the Triple Entente.
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September 17 – At Ft. Myer, Virginia, U.S.A. Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, is severely injured in the crash but recovers.
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The laboratory of Paul Ehrlich creates the Salvarsan treatment for syphilis.
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October – First publication of infrared photographs, by Professor Robert Williams Wood in the Royal Photographic Society Journal
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June 16 – A 772-gram stony meteorite strikes earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn, damaging a barn.
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May 4 – The New York Times reports of a find of gigantic humans made while excavating a mound at Lake Delevan, Wisconsin. According to the news account, eighteen skeletons are found in one large mound at a Lake Lawn farm.
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November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
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June 28 – Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo.
UH OH!!!
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January 12 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
March to October – The 1915 locust plague breaks out in Palestine.
March 19 – Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not then classified as a planet.
May 6 – Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.
May 7 – World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat, killing 1,198.
May 23 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangaea.
The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.
aka 1915 is the coolest year yet
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January 24 - In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7°C to -48.8°C (44°F to -56°F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
April 20 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
May 21 – Britain initiates daylight saving time.
July 1 – July 12: At least one shark mauls 5 swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.
October 16 – Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic -a forerunner of Planned Parenthood.
Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany.
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January 31 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
February 24 – World War I: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
April 2 – World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
April 6 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.
May 18 – World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress, giving the President the power of conscription.
May 27 – World War I: Over 30,000 French troops refuse to go to the trenches in Missy-aux-Bois.
November 24 – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most fatal single event in U.S. police history until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
November 26 – The National Hockey League is formed as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association.
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January 8 – Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.
April 21 – Manfred Von Richthofen, aka "The Red Baron", World war one's most successful fighter pilot, dies in combat at Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme River.
September 11 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.
November 11
World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM in Marshal Foch’s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.[2]
Poland regains independence after 123 years of partitions. Józef Piłsudski is appointed Commander-in-Chief.
Emperor Charles I of Austria gives up his absolute power but does not abdicate.
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January 16 – The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States.
January 25 – The League of Nations is founded in Paris.
August 11
The first NFL team for Wisconsin (the Green Bay Packers) is founded by Curly Lambeau.
October 2 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
October 9
Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
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January 1 – Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. (Adjusted for inflation, that equals $3,125,000 as of January 1, 2009).
January 16
Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.
January 19 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
May 16
Joan of Arc is canonised. Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is richly decorated.
August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
November 21 – Bloody Sunday: British forces open fire on spectators and players during a football match in Dublin's Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This follows the assassinations of 12 British agents by the IRA in an earlier attack elsewhere.
Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany.
Because there are so many mixed-race persons and because so many Americans with some black ancestry appear white, the United States Census stops counting mixed-race peoples and the one drop rule becomes the national legal standard.
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bar none this is the coolest thread posted on dcnet ive ever read
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July 18 – The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is given.
July 27 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
July 29 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.
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January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made.
May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
September 13 – The highest temperature in recorded history is taken in at 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), in El Aziziyah, Libya in shade
October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years
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March 2 – Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead.
October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney Founded The Walt Disney Company.
November 15 – The hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 quadrillion). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency
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U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.
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April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
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September 20 – Twelve blue cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
November 10
In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) was first synthesized.
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gz on rc level--runecrafting as a skill is worse than the gorilla man.
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May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis.
May 22 – An 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Xining, China kills 200,000.
World population reaches 2 billion.
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September 28 – Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin.
October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
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August 31 – The Young Plan, which set the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.
September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) peaks at 381.17, a height it would not reach again until November 1954.
October 24 – October 29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
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March 3 – John Dillinger escapes prison using a wooden gun.
April 6 – Hostess Twinkies are invented.
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May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.
October 17 – American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago, Illinois.
December 11 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
Deuterium is discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
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February 22 – The first Purple Heart was awarded.
July 8 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
December 27 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
Zippo lighters are developed.
Prontosil, the first oral antibiotic, is discovered by Gerhard Domagk, but no publication occurs until 1935.
Unemployment in the USA – ca. 33% – 14 million.
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February 15 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
February 17
The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
March 2 – The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
March 12 – Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "Fireside Chats".
March 15
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains to date as the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.
March 27 – Japan leaves the League of Nations.
April 5
The International Court in the Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for American citizens to own gold.
May 2
The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs.
May 8 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.
October 16 – Germany announces its intention to officially leave the League of Nations.
October 17 – Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield.
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May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
December 27 – Persia becomes Iran.
And to all of you global warming idiots:
This year is the hottest year on record, followed by 1998.