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Babe Ruth is traded by the Red Sox for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time.
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Invention of the submarine
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League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
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The world's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
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henry Ford made possible the automobile but now if you buy the car you can have it in any colour.
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1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
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1st radio-transmission of wireless:
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The German army marches to the Ruhr to fight the Ruhr Red Army
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NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
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Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi