February 29, 1916 — Dinah Shore born
Born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tennessee, Dinah Shore almost didn’t become a star. She studied at Vanderbilt University, graduating...
November 14, 2019
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April 24, 1916 — The Easter Rising commences
In 1916, with the hated English overlords distracted by the First World War, a group of Irish revolutionaries decided that...
November 9, 2019
May 13, 1916 — Sholem Aleichem dies
Best known for his tales of Teyve the Dairyman, Sholem Aleichem was a Jewish writer born in Russia in 1859....
November 4, 2019
June 29, 1916 — Roger Casement is sentenced to death for treason
Sir Roger Casement was still a young man when he toured colonial Africa and South America in the early years...
October 29, 2019
July 8, 1916 — Eppie Lederer and Pauline Phillips born
Better known respectively by their noms du plume, Ann Landers and Dear Abby, Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman...
October 24, 2019
September 17, 1916 — Manfred von Richthofen makes his first kill as a pilot
Manfred von Richtofen won his first aerial combat with Jasta 2 in the skies over Cambrai, France, on 17 September,...
October 19, 2019
December 16, 1916 — Rasputin is murdered
Rasputin is one of the legends of the Twentieth Century. He was definitely real, but has been imputed with supernatural...
October 14, 2019
July 11, 1917 — The Battle of Passchendaele commences
Also known as the third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Passchendaele was an attempt to capture the strategically important...
October 9, 2019
October 31, 1917 — Turkish lines are broken at Beersheba
By 1917, British and Commonwealth forces under General Allenby were slowly progressing northward through Turkish-occupied Palestine, but the advance stalled...
October 4, 2019
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
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