January 1 Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland January 2 Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux January 2 NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down January 3 U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor January 5 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace January 8 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) January 8 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I January 12 Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4 January 14 Finland and U.S.S.R. adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar January 19 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly January 22 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic January 25 Russia declared a republic of Soviets January 27 "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater January 28 Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory January 28 Trotsky becomes leader of Reds February 1 Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest February 1 Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical premieres in New York City February 1 Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) February 3 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service February 5 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson February 5 Separation of church and state begins in U.S.S.R. February 6 Britain grants women (30 and over) vote February 8 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published February 9 Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va February 9 Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris February 14 H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in New York City February 14 U.S.S.R. adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1) February 15 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland February 15 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar February 16 Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day) February 21 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine February 22 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia February 24 Estonia declares independence from Russia February 26 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 March 2 New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's March 3 Richard Goring's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin March 3 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign March 4 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) March 6 U.S. naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle March 7 H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City March 7 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal March 9 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party March 9 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda March 9 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens March 11 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia March 11 Save the Redwoods League founded March 13 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set March 13 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms March 14 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF March 16 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published March 17 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford March 17 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles March 18 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms March 18 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam March 19 Congress authorizes time zones and approves daylight saving time March 19 S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane March 21 During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive March 23 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River March 23 Crepy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed March 23 Lithuania proclaims independence March 23 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) March 30 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 March 31 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect April 1 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force April 1 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St. New York City April 3 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler April 4 Battle of Somme, ends April 4 Food riot in Amsterdam April 9 Latvia proclaims independence April 13 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital April 14 Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) April 15 Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents April 18 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play April 23 Battle of Zeebrugge ends April 23 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea April 23 National Urban League forms April 27 Giants' 9-0 winning start and Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped April 29 Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays April 30 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen May 4 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 May 10 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor May 11 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8 May 13 1st U.S. airmail stamps issued (24 cents ) May 14 Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) May 14 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington D.C. May 15 1st airmail postal service (New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.) May 15 1st regular airmail service (between New York and Washington) inaugurated May 15 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6 May 15 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare, Jr. wins in 1:53.4 May 15 Greeks troops lands at Smyrna May 15 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game May 18 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia May 18 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200 May 19 Washington 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings May 20 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico) May 21 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote May 23 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens May 24 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning May 26 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia May 28 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent June 1 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis June 1 White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play June 3 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional June 6 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st U.S. victory of WW I June 8 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered June 12 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France June 13 Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings June 15 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania June 22 32nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63) June 22 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68, Ivanhoe, Illinois June 23 Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0 June 25 Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms July 3 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament July 4 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa July 8 Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleveland, prevailing rules reduce Babe's Hhome runR to a triple July 9 101 killed and 171 injured in worst U.S. train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee July 9 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal July 10 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms July 12 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed July 14 Dutch government reclaims South seas July 15 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I July 17 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings July 18 U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I July 19 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) July 19 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt July 22 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park July 25 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California July 25 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) July 26 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed) July 27 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York August 1 British troops enter Vladivostok August 1 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings August 6 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France August 6 In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends August 8 Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens August 9 Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play" August 11 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans August 15 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania) August 15 Russia severs diplomatic ties with U.S. August 16 U.S. troops overthrows Archangelsk August 17 British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan August 17 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 August 17 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus August 19 Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in New York City August 20 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I August 24 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) August 24 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players August 26 W Smith and F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in New York City August 27 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army August 27 Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia August 28 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly August 30 Czechoslovakia forms independence republic August 30 Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin August 30 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech August 31 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) September 1 Baseball season ends due to WW I September 1 Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns September 1 U.S. troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 September 3 38th U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75) September 3 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 September 3 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line September 4 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier September 4 U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months September 5 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early September 9 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms September 10 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers September 11 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series September 12 During WW I, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel September 13 Train accident at Weesp, Netherlands, kills 42 September 15 CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state September 18 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts September 20 Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague September 26 Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I September 29 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line October 3 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria October 3 Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne October 3 Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St. New York City October 4 Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in New York City October 6 U.S. ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die October 8 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more October 8 Sergeant Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans October 10 Baden's Geisz forms government October 12 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital) October 12 Cloquet Minnesota and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die October 12 Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800 October 15 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 October 17 De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens October 17 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic October 18 Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire October 18 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn October 18 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) October 20 Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions October 21 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min October 23 Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17) October 25 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die October 26 Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe October 28 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up October 30 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state October 31 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in U.S. in 1 week November 1 102 die in a New York City BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn November 1 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians November 3 Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves November 3 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I November 4 Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors November 6 Republic of Poland proclaimed November 6 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns November 7 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets November 7 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed November 7 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd November 8 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs November 9 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic November 9 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I November 9 Republic Germany proclaimed November 10 German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland November 10 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski November 11 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front) November 11 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution November 11 Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates November 11 Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies and Germany sign armistice November 11 Poland declares independence November 12 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic November 13 Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont abdicates throne November 13 Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk November 13 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg November 14 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president November 16 Hungarian People's Republic declared November 17 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH November 18 Brussels free Stofnar November 18 Latvia declares independence from Russia November 21 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die November 21 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland November 22 Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns November 22 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels November 22 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland November 22 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) November 24 Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party November 28 Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicates November 29 Serbia annexes Montenegro December 1 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence December 1 Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown December 1 Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade December 1 Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established December 4 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office December 5 Oil refinery on Curacao opens December 9 French troops occupies Mainz December 10 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League December 13 U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany December 13 Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) December 14 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in New York City December 15 American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting December 16 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds December 19 Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (New York Globe) December 20 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in New York City December 21 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000 December 26 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Australia after WW I (Vic vs. NSW) December 30 John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover December 31 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
