Died (Noah George Aeschliman)

Noah George Aeschliman (1914 - 1915)

Born (Noah George Aeschliman)

Armenia - Armenian Genocide

USA - D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is Released

UK - Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat

Ypres, France - Second Battle of Ypres

New York, NY, USA - Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invent Pyrex

World War I begins and lasts until 1918, because Germany violates a treaty to respect neutrality of Belgium; Turkey enters war on Germany's side

UK - Battle of the Marne

USA - Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp

UK - First Traffic Light

Panama - Panama Canal Officially Opened

Egypt - Britain proclaims protectorate over Egypt

France - Stunning British casualty figures come from Loos -60,000; in on the Somme, 60,000 in one day; total for 5-month offensive - 400,000; Germans use poison gas at Ypres

Ireland - Easter Monday Irish rebellion, Irish Volunteers (later Irish Republican Army) proclaim Irish Republic; German submarine lands Sir Roger Casement who is arrested, German ship with rifles intercepted off Irish coast, Casement executed; Sinn Fein and Ulster cannot agree on partition

France - Passchendaele, British advance of 5 miles costs 400,000 casualties

UK - Balfour Declaration promises Jews home in Palestine

UK - First use of massed tanks (Battle of Cambrai)

UK - King George V adopts Windsor as Royal Family's English surname in place of family's German name

USA - Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask