Event of Interest
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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Election of Interest
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
Event of Interest
Nov 14 Tomáš Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- 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
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 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