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Show Thurvlay, November 18, -- J W, THE DAILY HERALD, A CENTL'RY OK ACHUA EMI.NT, (w coni), Pr.no. herukk-mr- LINE HERE HERE KOI, 61110 82010 Mather Teresa, humanitarian, 82710 rQy U XU RonaM Reagan, actor and president, 2611 Si I il lUli) MILLENNIUM Harlow, actress, 3311 TMmat Lanier "Tennessee" WUHams, Jan. 8: French aviator Hubert Latham sets a world altitude record by flying his monoplane to a height uf more than 3,300 f eet at Bouy, France. REAGAN LIBRARV 'tekltoain "" mensely popular Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, dies at age 74 in Dan- Jjury, Conn. Twain's most famous work is "The Adventures of Tom "Sawyer" (1876). Lang-hom- the world awaits comets, and the fear of them, are as old as the recorded history of the heavenly visitors at least 2,000 years. And in 1910, the reappearance of Halley's comet after May 1: The National Negro Committee, founded in June 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois, becomes the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 75 years sparks mass hysteria. Superstition is alive and well. But the fear also has a basis in science. Scientists predict that Earth will pass through the tail of Halley's comet on the night of May Some believe that the tail con18-1- cyanogen, which could wipe out the Earth's population. From Berlin to Constantinople, Mexico City to St. Petersburg, terrified to crowds gather in Central Park, on Riverside Drive, in Greenwich VilTHE LIBRARY Hal ley's OF CONGRESS comet prompts an outpouring of pop culture, including a song. lage ... and on most of the city's rooftops. husband, Pierre, and Henri for studies of radioactivity. Bec-quer- Mr. Bean's leaky boots ', Leon Leonwood Bean, a Maine merchant known as "L.L.," gets tired of coming home from tramps jn the woods with wet feet because Bis heavy leather boots leak. So in' 1912, he invents a boot that com bines a light weight leather top with a : ft p ,1 Jf tofellow sportsmen through the , L.L. 10-ho- Camel cigarettes are introduced by the R.J. Reynolds Co. in 1913. The package, which sells for a dime, features an image of a camel, Lithographers base the picture a photograph that a company photographer Feb. 14: Arizona becomes the 48th state to join the Union. March 25: During working hours at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City, a fire breaks out on the ground floor, and upstairs workers are trapped. Most of the 146 people who die are women earning $1 for a workday. $!l Joe' Camel . 1912 the 47th state to join the Union. 1911 sporting goods Bean. mail-ord- pedition led by Robert F. Scott. Amundsen's achievement means that explorers have set foot at both ends of the Earth within less than three years. Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole in 1909. Jan. 6: New Mexico becomes mail. But 90 pairs are returned because the stitching gives way. True ' to his word, he refunds his customers' money and starts over with an. improved boot The Maine Hunting Boot eventually becomes a staple of a empire called SERVICE veils his latest invention, talking motion pictures, for invited guests in West Orange, NJ. The device is called a "kinetophone," combining the sound of a phonograph with the images of a motion picture camera. His vision is to have a talking motion picture played in theaters in two years. waterprooT 3k 1 r .' visaasWk PARK Aug. 27: Thomas Edison un- SH bottom-H? sells 100 pairs ' -- NATIONAL B Dec. 14: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four companions reach the South Pole, winning a race with a British ex- May 10: Lt. George E.M. Kelly crashes his plane at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, and becomes the first military pilot to die in an air crash. r gm. imj? , cn B May 15: The U.S. Supreme Court issues a landmark decision finding Standard Oil Co. guilty of shotofaBarnum circus camel named Old Joe. The shot was taken with the animal in an unusual pose, with its nose held high, because Old Joe's trainer had just whacked him on the nose for misbehaving. & Bailey restraint oftrade and orders its dissolution within six months. May 30: Driving a Marmon Wasp outfitted with the first rear-viemirror ever used on a car, Ray Harroun wins the first running of the Indianapolis 600 auto race. He finishes the race in six hours, 42 minutes, eight seconds at an average speed of 74.59 mph. Ths Ifttf 3 trs&f! H Juw 23: King George V is crowned in Westminster Abbey, he succeeds King Edward VII, who died May 6, 1910. Charlie Chaplin introduces his .'little tramp" character to the world Mack Senin 1914 in the one-renet! film, "Kid Auto Races at Venice." The character, an immediate hit, will be the protagonist in several of Chaplin's later fulMength classics. March 12: The Girl Scouts of the USA has its origin in Savannah, Ga., where Juliette Gordon Low starts the first troop of Girl Guides. The name will be changed to the Girl Scouts in 1913, and its headquarters will be established in New York. April 20: Fenway Park in Boston opens with a full house of 27,000 fans. The Boston Red Sox beat the New York Highlanders (renamed the Yankees the next year) 6 in 11 innings. 7-- May 18: The first baseball strike takes place when 19 members ofthe Detroit Tigers refuse to play the Philadelphia Athletics af- ter Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb is suspended because he mauled a spectator who taunted him at a game in New York. B July: At the V Olympiad in Stockholm, Sweden, Jim Thorpe achieves the unprecedented and still unsurpassed feat of winning the gold medal in the decathlon and pentathlon. Thorpe, born in Oklahoma of Fox and Sac ancestry and a star halfback at the Carlisle Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., Oct 9: Revolution breaks out in central China after a bomb explodes at the headquarters of republican insurgents, setting off a chain of events that will culminate in the end of the Manchu dynasty. Dr. Sun Yet Sen, the Western-Educatebunder of the revolutionary movement, has helped pave the way for the J ld ' 1 d . over-thiw- theManchusandestab-Hnhme- of a republic The boy who is China's last emper-o- r is forced to abdicate four months after the revolution begins, but Sun's democratic goal for China ultimately is frustrated. i Dsjb. Kfc Marie Curie is awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, becoming the first person to win two of the coveted awards. The Frmchwom&n was awarded the Nobel Prise for physics in 1903 along with her 6 J! J receives his medals from King GustavV of Sweden, who declares: "Sir. you are the grea test athlete in the world." To which Thorpe replies: Thanks, King." HKi: Woodrow Wilson become! only the second Democrat elected president since the Civil Dec. 13: Ieonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," stolen two years earlier from the Louvre in Paris, is found undamaged in Florence, Italy. The suspect, Vincenzo Perugia, is caught when he tries to sell the painting! Austro-Hunaria- .:v:niW Y mm 1 ; 1 l n B June 26: The flash point comes when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie von Hohenberg, are shot to death in n Sarajevo, capital of the province of The archduke, heir to the imperial throne, is the victim of a tubercular Serbian nationalist named Gavri-l- o uses Princip. Austria-Hungar- y the event as an excuse to neutralize Serbia, which has long been a troublesome neighbor. . r Austro-Hungaria- a. THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL Titanic embarks from Southampton. England, on Its maiden voyage. G- - Titanic's fateful voyage First reports of the Titanic's encounter with destiny in the North Atlantic underplay the magnitude of the event "Passengers on giant liner Titanic transferred safely; ship collides with an iceberg. Titanic saved," say the headlines in the April 15 edition of the (Fort Worth) The accompanying report, from The Associated Press, goes on to say that the White Star liner stricken on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York is afloat, "now in tow," and headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia As the tragic tale unfolds, a waiting world learns that more than 1,500 people perished in the frigid Atlantic as the great ship slid into War. With 435 electoral votes and 42 percent of the Ay r- popular vote, he defeats Republican incum- bent William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, who left the Republican Party to run on the ticket ofthe Progressive, or "Bull Moose," Party. of nt 1 1 War is brewing in Europe. The major European powers, entangled in alliances, are lurching toward a global conflict that will bring about the collapse of empires and a profound realignment of world power. On one side is the Triple Entente, comprising Britain, France and Russia; the alliance will eventually include Serbia, Belgium, Italy and Japan. On the other is a coalition called the Central Powers: Germany, the Empire, the Ottoman E)ripire and Bulgaria. The Balkans, long a theater of local conflict, are a powder keg which will spark a worldwide conflagration, the first global conflict in history, ' are common. In Paris, the night begins with a thunderstorm that adds to the dread. In New York, Leo Tolstoy June 7: udson Stuck, an K)isenvi! missionary in Alaska, leads a party that makes the first Mount UMvnt ol'2(i,:520-foo- t MtKinli v. the highest mountain in North America. 1914 people gather to pray. Some attend doomsday soirees. Suicides ? Leo Tolstoy, author of "War and , Peace," has long been shunned by the Russian government but jeyered by the common folk. He JSas on Nov. 20, 1910 at age 82. 10 LINE HERE HERE Dec. 24: Seventy-tw- o people, mostly children, are killed at the Italian hall in Calumet, Mich., where a cry of "fire" starts a panic during a Christmas program for families of striking miners. There is no fire. tains a deadly poison called July 4: Race riots break out in several U.S. cities, including Houston, soon after black boxer Jack Johnson knocks out Jim Jeffries for the world heavyweight championship. At least eight blacks are reported killed. the im- On April 21, 1910, fear and March 26: Congress passes an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act It bars, among others, criminals and carriers of disease from entering the United States. June 19: The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Wash., where the local YMCA and the Spokane Ministerial Association persuade the city to set aside the Sunday to "honor thy father." 112514 I'c Oct. 10: IVesident Woodrow Wilson pushes a button in Washington to detonate 8 tons of dynamite, opening the last segment of the Panama Canal and allowing the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceiins to rush together. Nicknamed The I3ig Ditch," it officially opens for business on April 15, 1914. The United Suites spent $352 million to build the canal, which required excavations totaling 262 million cubic yards. There is also a cost in blood: thousands of construction workers lost their fives to disease or accidents. impending appearance of Halley's comet. Mankind's fascination with flooding in Paris; damage is estimated at $200 million. 102814 ,'VOTO: With Jan. 26: Heavy rains swell the Seine River and cause severe Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., Speaker of the House, 12912 Lady Bird Johnson, first lady, 122212 Richard M. Nixon, president, 1913 Danny Kaye, entertainer, 11813 Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, 41213 Vines Lombard!, football coach, 61113 Gerald Ford, president, 71413 Jesse Owens, track athlete, 91213 Burt Lancaster, actor, 111213 William S. Burroughs, novelist, 2514 6en. William C. Westmoreland, 32614 Alec Guinness, actor, 4214 Jce Louis, boxer, 51314 JTw HeyerdaM, explorer, 10614 Dr. Jonas Salk, polio vaccine developer, Jko DIMaggk), baseball player, NOTEBOOK 1910 playwright, 32611 rluWt H. Humphrey, politician, 52711 Lucille Ball, comedian. 82011 Jackson Pollock, artist, 12812 Perry Como, singer, 51812 pen Hogan, golfer. 81312 WUCWM, chef, 81512 6ane Kelly, entertainer, 82312 Roy Rogers, cowboy star, 112112 l.ih movement that culminates on Derby Day at Epsom Downs A young woman, Emily Wilding Davison, runs onto the racetrack in front of Kin (Jforgi1 Vs prize horse and tries to seize the reins. She is trampled ;uid dies four days Liter. Her death galvanizes the movement. Jacques Cousteau, oceanographer, Eero Saarinen, architect, I B Haw & Women win the right to vote in Arizona, Wisconsin and Kansas. 1913 Feb. 17: The Armory Show opens Feb. 17 in New York's 69th Regiment Armory, giving Americans their first glimpse of cubism. Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and other impressionists are included, the deep at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, two hours and 40 minutes after striking an iceberg while steaming through an ice field. Only 711 people mostly women and children are rescued by the Cunard liner Carpathia and brought to New York. The 46,328-to- n Titanic, the largest, most sumptuously appointed ship ever to put to sea, did not carry enough lifeboats for even half its 2,224 passengers and crew. Among the dead are such movers and shakers of the day as John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. The sinking of the "unsinkable" ship becomes a metaphor for the frailty of human existence and the limitations of technology. along with those of American realist Edward Hopper and others. But it is Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" that is the object of greatest scorn. B Feb. 25: The 16th Amendment to the Constitution takes force; it empowers Congress to levy graduated income taxes on incomes over $3,000 per year. May 29: Parisian socialites attend the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring," presented by impresario Sergei DiaghiW Ballets Russea, and drown out the unfamiliar, German sokfiers in 1314. B Jury 23: Austria-Hungarsends Serbia an ultimatum, knowing that its terms will be rejected. No one imagines that Europe will go to war over a punitive action against Serbia, which is somethi ng of a pariah state. But the nations! of Europe are entangled in a web of alliances. Czar Nicholas II of Russia decides to stick with his ally, Serbia, dragging France into the conflict. Germany is already pledged to back y Austria-Hungar- B July 28: Austria-Hungar- y declares war on Russia. nt musk with whistles and boos. CWeographer Vaslav Nyin-sk- y has to shout out the complicated rhythms from the wings because the dancers cant hear the music, and an enraged Stravinsky leave the thaater in midperfor-manc- e. B June 4: Stepping up thair effort to win the vote, English suffragists take to smashing win-doand throwing firebombs, a it t- - B Jury 31: Germany asks Russia to cancel its mobilization. When Russia refuses, Germany declares war on Russia Europe is immediately engulfed in a blizzard of mobilization orders and declarations of war. 9 Aug. 3: Germany declares war on France and invades Belgium; that draws Great Britain, a guarantor of Belgian neutrality, mto the conflict Aui 2M0: In the east, the Russians invade East Prussia, But within four weeks, they are badty defeated in the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, ending their advance. |