1919 Trivia, Fun Facts, and Pop Culture HistoryQuick Facts from 1919World-Changing Event: The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War I. The French Supreme Allied Commander, Ferdinand Foch, reviewed the terms and declared: “This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.” World War II began twenty […]
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1918 Trivia, Fun Facts, and Pop Culture HistoryQuick Facts from 1918World-Changing Event: World War I ended at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918 — the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — when Germany signed the Armistice. After four years, 8.5 million soldiers dead, and a generation of European young men
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1917 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1917World-Changing Event: The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, entering World War I after nearly three years of official neutrality. The Zimmermann Telegram — a secret German proposal offering Mexico its lost territories in exchange for joining the war against the U.S. — had
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1916 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1916World Changing Event: The Battle of the Somme — July 1 to November 18, 1916 — was one of the bloodiest battles in human history. On the first day alone, 57,470 British Empire soldiers were casualties, 19,240 of them killed. Over the course of the battle, more than
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1915 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1915World-Changing Event: A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans, pushing the United States steadily toward entering a war it had been watching from a careful distanceAmerica-Changing Event: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a
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1914 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1914World-Changing Event: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Within six weeks, the major powers of Europe were at war. By November, the Western Front had settled into trenches. The world that existed before June 28 never came back.America-Changing
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1913 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1913World-Changing Event: The Ford Motor Company introduced the moving assembly line on December 1, 1913, at its Highland Park plant in Michigan, reducing chassis assembly time from 12 hours and 30 minutes to 2 hours and 40 minutes — and permanently changing the relationship between workers, wages, and
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1912 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1912World-Changing Event: The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, and sank in the early hours of April 15, killing more than 1,500 of the 2,240 people on board — the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history, and the one that permanently changed
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1911 Trivia, Fun Facts, and Pop Culture HistoryQuick Facts from 1911World-Changing Event: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, killed 146 workers — mostly young immigrant women — and became the defining catalyst for American labor law, workplace safety regulations, and the modern labor movementOther World-Changing Event: Roald Amundsen
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1910 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1910World Changing Events: The Mexican Revolution began, lasting a decade and reshaping Latin American politics. Halley’s Comet made its closest approach to Earth in April, triggering the most widespread astronomical panic in modern history.Popular Songs: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, and
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