- Sep 7 Johnny Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll (US Patent D47789)
- Sep 7 St Louis Terriers' Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago Whales (Federal League), 3-0
- Sep 8 Association of Negro Life & History founded
- Sep 8 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: William Johnston beats Maurice McLoughlin 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 10-8 in first US event held at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York
- Sep 9 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History formed in Chicago by Carter G. Woodson and others. Now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
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Sep 16 Tsar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
Nicholas II
- Sep 16 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
- Sep 21 Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
- Sep 22 Boston Red Sox ask Boston Braves for use of Braves Field (10,000+ capacity) for Baseball World Series against Philadelphia Phillies
- Sep 22 Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) holds its 1st class
- Sep 22 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
- Sep 25 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties
- Sep 25 The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- Sep 28 Battle of Kut-el-Amara: British defeat Turks in Mesopotamia
- Sep 29 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
- Sep 29 British army conquers Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
- Sep 29 Dutch Opera's 1st performance
- Sep 29 Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat" premieres in NYC
- Sep 29 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
- Sep 29 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
- Sep 30 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
- Oct 3 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada
- Oct 4 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
- Oct 5 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
- Oct 5 Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing
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Oct 7 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers
Edith Cavell
- Oct 8 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
- Oct 8 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
- Oct 9 Belgrade, Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
- Oct 9 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
- Oct 9 Louis Kaufmans comedy "Unchastened Woman" premieres in New York City
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Oct 9 Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
Woodrow Wilson
- Oct 11 Bulgarian anti-Serbian offensive begins
Model T
Oct 12 Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit
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Oct 12 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves with dual nationalities
Theodore Roosevelt
- Oct 12 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners
- Oct 13 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
- Oct 16 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
- Oct 18 3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo
- Oct 19 Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria
- Oct 19 US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French
- Oct 21 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
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Oct 21 William Jennings Bryan's successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping
William Jennings Bryan
- Oct 23 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
Women's Suffrage March on Fifth Ave, New York
Oct 23 An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave, led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters
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Oct 28 Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
Richard Strauss
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Oct 29 Aristide Briand becomes Prime Minister of France for the 3rd time
Aristide Briand
- Nov 1 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- Nov 2 First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
- Nov 6 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
- Nov 6 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
- Nov 8 An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Italian liner 'Ancona' without warning, killing over 200 people
- Nov 12 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
- Nov 12 Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
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Nov 14 Tomáš Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Nov 20 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tigers win 2nd title; beat Toronto Rowing Association, 13-7
- Nov 23 On the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, the Battle of Ctesiphon between Allied and Turkish forces enters its second day
- Nov 24 Serbian leader flees to Albania
- Nov 29 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.
- Nov 30 St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin
- Dec 1 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington
- Dec 3 General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies
- Dec 4 Frank Friday Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
- Dec 4 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia
- Dec 4 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco
Event of Interest
Dec 4 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'
Henry Ford
Music Premiere
Dec 8 Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres
Jean Sibelius
Event of Interest
Dec 8 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
John McCrae
- Dec 12 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
- Dec 12 Aristide Briand forms French war government
- Dec 12 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
- Dec 20 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
- Dec 20 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove
- Dec 21 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
- Dec 22 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati; Federal Baseball League dissolves
- Dec 23 J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" premieres in NYC
Music Premiere
Dec 25 Irving Berlin & Harry B Smith's musical premieres in NYC
Irving Berlin
- Dec 27 US Iron and Steel workers begin a 3-week strike in Ohio for a eight-hour-day; they are successful as the US needs steel for armaments
- Dec 28 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
- Dec 28 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones
- Dec 30 Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die