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The First Penny
The first Abraham Lincoln penny is made. The picture features the back of the Lincoln penny. -
China abolishes slavery
China abolishes slavery (well not completely, it really ended in 1906, but the young workers were kept until they reached the age of 25, basically meaning that this is the year that the last of the chinese slaves were freed). -
Italo-Turkish War
Italy declared war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War. -
The 48th U.S State
Arizona became the 48th state of the United States. -
Gandhi is arrested
Gandhi is arrested after leading the march through South Africa. -
Mother's Day is declared as a holiday
United States President Wilson declared Mother’s Day. -
The first American to win a Nobel Price
Theodore W. Richards is the first American to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. -
The first self-serve supermarket
the first supermarket “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Women's Suffrage Parade
about 20,000 women march in the Women's-Suffrage parade in New York. -
Train wreck in Nashville
101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee. -
Molasses Flood in Boston,MA
two billion gallons of molasses flood in Boston, MA, drowns 21 people. -
Czechoslovakia apapts its own constitution
Czechoslovakia adapts its own constitution to separate from Germany and the USSR. -
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of NSW
1921- On July 29th, Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialists Workers Party (known as the Nazi Party). -
Hitler's Prison Sentence
Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations, he rails against the 'Jewish sell-out' of Germany to the Bolsheviks (Russian for ‘One of the Majority). -
Beer Hall Putsch
Beer Hall Putsch: Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler Flees.
