March 4, 1918 — The earliest confirmed case of the Influenza Pandemic is recorded
Albert Gitchell, an army cook assigned to Camp Funston in Kansas, United States, is generally held to be the earliest...
September 29, 2019
The Complete History
July 18, 1918 — Nelson Mandela born
One of the greatest political figures of the Twentieth Century, Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo, in...
September 24, 2019
April 1, 1919 — Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus School
The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar, Germany (the town, not the government) by Walter Gropius, an architect. Ironically, as...
September 19, 2019
January 19, 1920 — Construction of the permanent Cenotaph in London begins
Edwin Lutyens was one of the greatest British architects, possibly the greatest of his era. His design for the Cenotaph...
September 4, 2019
January 29, 1921 — Gene Klein born
Born in the Bronx, Klein moved to California as a young man and became wealthy running car dealerships, and later...
September 1, 2019
July 29, 1921 — Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party
Hitler was the 55th person to join the German Worker’s Party – the same party that later re-named itself the...
August 29, 2019
August 23, 1921 — Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born labourers and anarchists resident on Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, they...
August 24, 2019
August 2, 1922 — Alexander Graham Bell dies
Alexander Graham Bell, best known as the inventor of the telephone, was 75 when he died, and still refused to...
August 19, 2019
November 26, 1922 — Carter and Carnavon find King Tut’s tomb
If not the greatest archaeological find of the Twentieth Century, certainly the best known. King Tut – well, Tutankhamen really...
August 14, 2019
December 28, 1922 — Stan Lee born
Born Stanley Lieber in Manhattan to Romanian parents, it was under a pen name that he would become known as...
August 12, 2019
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