28 Things That Happened A Century Ago

“[february 10, 1921] Buster Keaton’s Short Film The Haunted House Is Released”

“[dec. 25, 1916] Photograph: British Soldiers Eating Christmas Dinner In A Shell Hole”

“[june 6, 1922] Legendary Actress And Singer Lillian Russell Dies Unexpectedly At 61. Among Her Many Accomplishments, She Was The First Voice Ever Heard On A Long Distance Phone Call”

“[april 8, 1920] The Chicago Post Office Has Adopted Roller Skates For Its Clerks As They Enable Them To Work More Rapidly, Thereby Saving Valuable Time”

“[july 26, 1920] ‪the “Pickle Sisters,” A Vaudeville Group Named After The Expression For When Two Women Have Sex With The Same Man.‬”

“[august 5th, 1922] “Four Prize Winners In Annual Beauty Show, Washington Bathing Beach, Washington, D.c. Left To Right: Gay Gatley, Eva Fridell, Anna Neibel, Iola Swinnerton.””

“[february 9, 1920] My Grandfather Wanted To Be A Cartoonist. He Worked For The Railroad Instead, Sending Home Many Letters”

“[may 16, 1920] Szmul Rzeszewski, An 8-Year-Old Boy, Makes World Headlines When He Defeats 20 Challengers In Paris, Including Some Of The Best Chess Players On Earth, Simultaneously”

“[january 17, 1922] Betty White Was Born.”

“[february 6, 1922] Chief John Smith Died. He Was An Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian Who Lived His Entire Life In The Cass Lake, Minnesota Area, And Was Reputed To Have Been 137 Years Old When He Died Of Pneumonia”

“[august 15, 1919] Downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Totally Untouched By War”

“[december 28, 1920] Amelia Earhart Flies For The First Time, Sparking Her Lifelong Interest In Aviation. She Disappeared At Sea Just 16 Years Later”

“[august 16, 1920] After Finding The Bricklaying Business Too Full Of UPS And Downs, This Amazing Young Girl Decided To Take A Shot At Iron Girdering For A Change”

“[july 27, 1920] Sailing Into Yokohama Harbor, Japan”

“[july 16th, 1921] Proper Date For The “How You Think You Look” Cartoon As Published In Judge Magazine”

“[june 13th, 1920] The United States Post Office Department Rules That Children May Not Be Sent Via Parcel Post”

“[july 20, 1919] United Kingdom Flag Created Out Of A Giant Human Formation 1919”

“[january 15th, 1920] On January 15, 1920, Traumatized Customers Make A Run On A Liquor Store The Day Before Prohibition In America Begins”

“[february 13th, 1922] Woman Seated At A Soda Fountain Table Pouring Alcohol Into A Cup From A Cane”

“[october 5 1919] Enzo Ferrari, An Italian Car Mechanic And Engineer, Enters His First Race. He Finished Fourth”

“Ferrari was a good driver, but not great. He won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Some say he cared too much for the sports cars he drove and could never ruin an engine in order to win.”

“[july 15, 1919] An Unidentified Couple Posed For A Photo Just After Getting Engaged On July 15, 1919”

“[june 10th, 1922] Frances Ethel Gumm Is Born In Grand Rapids, Minnesota”

“She’d go on to become Judy Garland and have an illustrious career as an actress and singer, her most iconic role being that of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard Of Oz (1939)”

“[april 3rd, 1920] In One Of The Great Celebrity Marriages Of The Year, Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald And Flapper Zelda Sayre Were Married In New York City, Eight Days After The Publication Of His Bestselling Novel, “This Side Of Paradise””

“[may 11, 1917] Kurdish Girls Carrying Water, May 11, 1917”

“[november 25, 1919] Italian Opera Singer Luisa Tetrazzini, At Her Arrival In New York Aboard The Liner Mauretania On Nov. 25, 1919”

“[may 30, 1922] The Lincoln Memorial Is Dedicated After 8 Years Of Construction. In Attendance Was Robert Todd Lincoln, The Only Living Relative Of The 16th President”

“[september 9th, 1921] Charlie Chaplin Visits London And Is Met By Thousands”

“[april 2, 1921] Albert Einstein Arriving In New York Where He Spoke On Relativity And Support For Palestine”

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