1916-1920

By JenniferZ19

  • Blood transfusions begin

    Blood transfusions begin
    In 1916 the first blood transfusion using stored and refrigerated blood is performed, by Oswald Hope Robertson, who was a medical researcher and U.S Army officer.

  • Charlie Chaplin

    Charlie Chaplin
    Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract, becoming the highest paid actor in the industry at the time, making a salary of 670,000 a year.

  • Pancho Villa

    Pancho Villa
    Mexican general Pancho Villa invades the US and kills 18 people.

  • WWI

    WWI
    WW1 last 9 months, the battle of Verdun begins with German offensive, and an estimated 1 million are killed.

  • Percival Lowell

    Percival Lowell
    Percival Lowell died from a stroke at 61, he was an American astronomer who discovered Pluto, and was the founder of Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

  • War with Germany begins

    War with Germany begins
    President of the US Woodrow Wilson asks congress to declare war on Germany, due to violations and trying to make Mexico their alliance.

  • 1917

    1917
    Alice Paul starts her 7 month jail sentence for peacefully protesting in support for the women's suffrage amendment at the White house.

  • Ciurea Train tradegy

    Ciurea Train tradegy
    A train at Ciurea station in Romania catches fire and explodes killing about 800 - 1,000 people, and its recognized as the 3rd worst rail accident in history.

  • Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari

    Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari
    Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer who was arrested in Paris under suspicion of being a German spy, she was executed by firing at 41.

  • Ferninand Von Zeppelin

    Ferninand Von Zeppelin
    Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and inventor he founded the Zeppelin(an aircraft used in war) dies at 78.

  • The Spanish Flu

    The Spanish Flu
    The Spanish flu kills about 21,000 people in just a week in the US only.

  • Women voting rights

    The US House of representatives passes amendment allowing women to finally be recognized and be able to vote.

  • First President of South Africa

    First President of South Africa
    Nelson Mandela was a south African activist, who served as the first president of south Africa.

  • Ratification of the 18th amendment

    Ratification of the 18th amendment
    Mississippi was the 1st state to ratify the 18th amendment authorizing the prohibition of alcohol

  • Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews

    Ukrainian mobs massacre innocent Jews in Seredino Buda.

  • Kelud volcano

    Kelud volcano
    Kelud volcano in Java Indonesia erupts killing about 5,000 people, and id the most active volcano that has erupted several times before this

  • Nazi group formation

    Nazi group formation
    The German workers part forms, precursor to national German workers (aka the Nazi party).

  • Exacution of Jews

    Polish army executes 35 young innocent Jews.

  • Emil Fischer

    Emil Fischer
    Emil Fischer was a German chemist, who won a noble prize in 1902, he developed the Fischer projection which is a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms, commits suicide at 66.

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler joins the German workers(Nazis) as its 7th member agreeing with the Germans nationalism and anti-Semitism. He later becomes a leader of the Nazis himself.

  • Walt Disney

    Walt Disney
    Walt Disney starts working as an artist with KC co for only $40 a week.

  • George Bernard

    George Bernard Shaw premieres his play "Heartbreak House" in NYC, it was a fantasia in the Russian manner on English.

  • Children sent by mail

    Children sent by mail
    The US post office says that children can't be shipped/sent by parcel after various attempts.

  • Mussolini facist leader

    Mussolini facist leader
    Mussolini was a facist leader in Italy, he starts a squad who begins terror and kill 11 in Bologna, Italy.

  • Devastating earthquake in China

    Devastating earthquake in China
    8.5 earthquake leaves Gansu province, china in devastation and shambles, killing about 200,000 people.

  • Refrences

    https://www.onthisday.com/date/1916
    https://www.onthisday.com/date/1917
    https://www.onthisday.com/date/1918
    https://www.onthisday.com/date/1919
    https://www.onthisday.com/date/1920
    https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/first-successful-non-direct-blood-transfusion-carried-out#:~:text=Blundell%20went%20on%20to%20publish,researcher%20and%20U.S.%20Army%20officer.