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Centuries : 19th century - 20th century 21st century
Decades : 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 - 1917 - 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
Events:
January 2 - The Royal Bank of Canada[?] takes over Quebec Bank[?] .
January 17 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands
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 $25 million
January 28 - The United States ends search for Pancho Villa
January 31 - World War I : Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
February 3 - World War I : The United States . brakes off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
February 5 - The constitution of Mexico is adopted.
February 23 - The Russian Revolution begins with the overthrow of the Tsar system.
February 24 - World War I : United States ambassador to the United Kingdom Walter H. Page is given the Zimmermann Telegram , in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico will declare war on the United States.
March 2 - The enactment of the Jones Act[?] grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
March 4 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives .
March 8 - The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters .
March 15 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates and the Russian Revolution begins.
March 26 - World War I : Battle of Gaza[?] - British cavalry troops retreat after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
March 31 - The United States takes possession of the Virgin Islands after paying $25 million to Denmark .
April 2 - President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany .
April 6 - World War I : United States declares war on Germany .
April 9 - 12 - World War I : Canada wins the Battle of Vimy Ridge .
May 13 - Three peasant children claim to see the Virgin Mary above a holmoak[?] tree in Cova da Irianear[?] near Fatima, Portugal[?] .
May 18 - World War I : The Selective Service Act passes the United States Congress giving the President the power to draft soldiers.
June 15 - The United States enacts the Espionage Act that suspends constitutional freedoms.
July 6 - Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba[?] from the Turks.
December 6 - Belgian Ship Imo collided with French ship Mont Blanc at Halifax. Mont Blanc was loaded with ammunition and caught fire; eventually exploding at 9:06am, taking most of Halifax with it. Until Hiroshima , this incident was the biggest manmade explosion ever.
December 25 - Why Marry?[?] Pulitzer Prize , opens at the Astor Theatre[?] in New York City .
Passchendale , the Third Battle of Ypres.
United States enters World War I .
Finland declared its independence.
Halifax explosion kills more than 1900 people, destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia .
Lions Clubs International was formed.
First commercially issued recordings of jazz music, by Original Dixieland Jass Band .
Conscription crisis in Canada.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
January 10 - Hilde Krahl[?] , actress (+ 1999 )
January 10 - Jerry Wexler[?] , record producer
January 24 - Ernest Borgnine , actor
January 25 - Ilya Prigogine , winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (+ 2003 )
January 29 - John Raitt[?] , actor, singer
February 6 - Zsa Zsa Gabor , actress
February 11 - Richard Jock Kinneir[?] , graphic designer.
February 11 - Sidney Sheldon[?] , author.
February 14 - Herbert A. Hauptman[?] , biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985
February 19 - Carson McCullers[?] , author (+ 1967 )
February 25 - Anthony Burgess , author of Clockwork Orange 1993 )
March 1 - Dinah Shore[?] , singer, television personality
March 1 - Robert Lowell[?] , poet
March 2 - Desi Arnaz , actor, bandleader, musician (+ 1986 )
March 20 - Dame Vera Lynn[?] , actress, singer
March 27 - Cyrus Vance , United States politician (+ 2002 )
May 14 - Lou Harrison , composer (+ 2003 )
May 21 - Raymond Burr , actor (+ 1993 )
May 28 - Papa John Creech[?] (+ 1994 )
May 29 - John Kennedy , United States President (+ 1963 )
July 4 - Manolete[?] (Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez), bullfighter (+ 1947 )
August 28 - Jack Kirby (comic book artist)
October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie , American jazz musician
December 22 - Gene Rayburn , television host.
Deaths:
January 10 - William F. Cody , frontiersman
January 16 - George Dewey , Admiral
March 31 - Emil Adolf von Behring , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901
April 1 - Scott Joplin , musician, composer
May 17 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke , ruler of Sarawak
May 20 - Philipp von Ferrary , stamp collector
June 30 - Antonio de La Gandara , painter
September 27 - Edgar Degas , painter
October 13 - Florence La Badie , pioneer actress
October 15 - Mata Hari , Dutch dancer and spy (executed)
October 28 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg[?] , husband of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom[?] , aunt of King George V .
November 17 - Auguste Rodin , sculptor
John William Waterhouse , Artist
Nobel Prizes :
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