Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Leo Max Frank was an American lynching victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintend…
Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John…
The 1915 Galveston hurricane was a tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage in the Galveston area in August 1915. Widespread damage was also documented throughout its path acr…
A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explos…
A story in the New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from…
The Zimmerwald Conference, held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8, 1915, was the first of three international conferences convened by anti-militarist socialists in …
The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
Modibo Keïta was a Malian politician who served as the first President of Mali from 1960 to 1968. He espoused a form of African socialism. He was deposed in a coup d'état in 1968 b…
Modibo Keïta, Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali (died 1977)
Nils Kihlberg was a Swedish actor, singer and director known for En trallande jänta (1942), Bröderna Östermans huskors (1945) and Det är min musik (1942). He died on 2 April 1965 i…
Nils Kihlberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director (died 1965)
Leonard Knapp, best known by his primary pseudonym, Lester del Rey, was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Scien…
Lester del Rey, American science fiction author (died 1993)
Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE was an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Rol…
Lancelot Ware, English barrister and biochemist, co-founder of Mensa (died 2000)
British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War. The Mark I was the world's first tank, a tracked, armed, and…
World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given…
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and …
French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
The New Culture Movement was a progressive sociopolitical movement in China during the 1910s and 1920s. Participants criticized many aspects of traditional Chinese society, favorin…
New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year. It was first published in 1821, and published weekly from 1897 until 1963. It was published every othe…
The Saturday Evening Post publishes the short story "Extricating Young Gussie" by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the first…
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musica…
Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer (died 1987)
Seán McCaughey was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the 1930s and 1940s and hunger striker.
Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican Army leader, died on hunger strike (died 1946)
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai was an Indian independence activist, author, poet, journalist, teacher and farmer.
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 2015)
James Allen McDonald was an American professional football player for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeye…
Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (died 1997)
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air…
The Metamorphosis, also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of sales…
The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka is published in the German journal Die Weißen Blätter
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched…
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by the French Republic, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the United States, the Kingdom of…
World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from…
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is …
Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
Magdolna Gabor was a Hungarian and American socialite and actress, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor.
Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (died 1997)