The First Battle of the Marne begins during World War I, resulting in a French and British victory pushing the Germans back from the Marne River and halting the German advance towards Paris, leading to the establishment of static trench warfare across the Western Front for the remainder of the war.
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The German U-boat U-9 sinks three Royal Navy cruisers of the 7th Cruiser Squadron. The cruisers Aboukir, the Hogue and the Cressy were on patrol on the North Sea. The sinking eroded confidence in the British government and damaged the reputation of the Royal Navy, when many countries were still undecided about taking sides in the war.
A motor-driven German Zeppelin commanded by Heinrich Mathy, hits Central London at Aldersgate , during WWI killing 22 people and causing over 1.5 million pounds worth of property damage. More
The first true self service grocery store in the United States opens in Memphis, Tennessee. The store official name was Clarence Saunders' Piggly Wiggly Corporation and Clarence Saunders was the founder. He introduced a totally new approach to shopping as well as price-marked items, and franchising.
Sounders lost control to investors in the 1920's and the direct corporate lineage was broken as the business went through several corporate changes, resulting in the brand now being own as by Piggly Wiggly LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. All current stores are independently owned and operated under the Piggly Wiggly franchise model.
About 4500 U.S. troops land at Arkhangelsk, Russia (Archangel) as part of an Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Starting at 4500 military personnel the U.S. troops, peaked to about 13000. By the time they left in late 1919, 150 U.S. soldiers had been killed in action and about 100 more died from illness or accidents. More
Philadelphia Liberty Loan Parade, goes on as scheduled, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together; taking place right after the pandemic commonly called the Spanish flu – the H1N1 virus – arrived in the city of 1.7 million people.
72 hours following the parade all the beds in the city’s 31 hospitals were filled. Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US citieswith More than 12,000 people dying within six weeks. More
The Hindenburg Line is finally broken by the allied force with Australian and US troops spearheading this battle, given the task of breaking defenses in the center. Advances were made, but it was a struggle between the two forces. The fighting lasted four days and resulted in heavy losses. More
A bomb carried in a horse carriage - approximately 100 pounds (45kg) of dynamite - exploded outside the J.P. Morgan building at 23 Wall Street, killing 40 people and seriously injuring 143. The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe it was carried out by Galleanists, an anarchist group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. More
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The powerful magnitude 8.2 Kanto earthquake and the ensuing 39.5 feet tsunami kills more than 140,000 people in Yokohama and Tokyo. Over the next ten days, the region experienced 1,197 aftershocks. More
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Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming accidently discovers penicillin leading to a breakthrough in the development of antibiotics. The following year, Fleming published his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology and presented his discovery to the Medical Research Club. To his surprise, his peers showed little interest in his work.
He recruited leading chemists and experts to help purify penicillin from the mold without any success. Penicillin was labelled a laboratory curiosity and Fleming gave up attempts to purify it. It wasn't until the 1940's fueled by the needs from WW2 and an unprecedented cooperation between the United States and Great Britain to produce penicillin that Penicillin became commercially available in 1943. More
Motorola, Inc. , the American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois is founded as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin. In 1947, the company changed its name to Motorola. More
Gandhi announces a fast "unto death" in protest of the British government's proposal to separate India's electoral system by caste which would aggravate the Indian caste and religious divisions, and in support of his goal to end the Hindu prejudice and discrimination against the untouchables. More
Prince Faisal, On Ibn Saud's behalf, declares the unification of the two kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That date is now a national holiday called Saudi National Day.
Standard Oil geologists' Robert P. “Bert” Miller and Schuyler B. “Krug” Henry, arrive in Saudi Arabia and are the first geologists to enter Saudi Arabia. They came ashore in Al Hasa on Sept. 23,1933 – just two years after the United States officially recognized Ibn Sa’ud’s nation.
The Nuremberg race laws are enacted, stripping German Jews of their citizenship and reducing them to mere “subjects” of the state thus establishing the framework that eventually led to the Holocaust. More
The Great New England Hurricane; a category 3 hurricane, originating near the Cape Verde Islands, slams into Long Island and southern New England without warning. The hurricane causing over 600 deaths and devastated coastal cities and towns. it was the most destructive storm to strike the region in the 20th century. More
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, writes a letter to Adolf Hitler appealing to him to refrain
from further aggression. and to work with the United States and its allies to promote world peace.Read letter
1938, September 29-30
The Munich Agreement is signed by Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, allowing Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. More
The Munich Agreement is signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier; ceding the Sudetenland border regions from Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. Upon his return to London, Chamberlain infamously declared that the agreement had brought "peace for our time," a sentiment quickly proven wrong by the impending World War II.
The Czechoslovak government was not included in the negotiations and was given the choice of resisting alone or submitting to the agreement. The Munich Agreement is considered a failed attempt at appeasement and is often referred to as the "Munich Betrayal" because it abandoned Czechoslovakia and only emboldened Hitler, accelerating the path toward World War II.
World War II effectively begins with Hitlers Germany's invasion of Poland. The German army blitzkrieg tactics quickly overpower the Polish forces. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later on September 3.
in accordance with their earlier commitments to Poland.The Soviets entered into a pact with Germany and the Red Army occupies eastern Poland on September 17.