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Tanks, the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of…
World War I: The Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers.
An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the…
In the congressional elections, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of…
World War I: Hit by ground fire, French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (pictured) landed his aircraft behind enemy lines
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed a
First World War: Britain, France and Russia signed a secret treaty promising territory to Italy if it joined the war on
First World War: Britain, France and Russia signed a secret treaty promising territory to Italy if it joined the war on
World War I: British forces launched the Battle of Aubers, an offensive on the Western Front, as part of the larger Seco
First World War: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the third attack on Anzac Cove, inflicting heavy casualties
First World War: The British and French prime ministers, H. H. Asquith and René Viviani, met at Calais to discuss…
First World War: The British and French prime ministers, H. H. Asquith and René Viviani, met at Calais to discuss…
U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a nineteen-year occupation of Haiti.
A fire and a gun battle between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners led to 17 deaths in the Ludlow Mass
The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to
Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social even
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip (pi
The US Navy launched the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first Standard-type battleship.
George V reviewed more than 200 Royal Navy vessels at Spithead, England.