/r/100yearsago
This subreddit was formed in late 2013 to document World War I, day by day as it developed. It covers social, political, military and cultural developments in combatant countries and noncombatants alike. Its particular emphasis is on pointing out the most striking similarities and differences from the problems humanity faces today.
Rules
All submissions must deal with things that happened exactly 100 years ago, using the Gregorian calendar. August 5, 2014 is all about August 5, 1914.
Start the title of your submission with the relevant date in brackets: [August 5, 1915], for example. If you want to discuss the subreddit itself use [Meta].
Follow reddiquette. Be nice to each other.
Useful links
How can you participate? Search for and post interesting articles from 100 years ago today. You don't have to do it everyday, but each submission helps us learn what was happening a century ago.
Chronicling America: U.S. National Archives newspaper archive
Hathi Trust: Enormous collection of scanned newspapers, magazines and other periodicals
The Gazette: Official public record of the United Kingdom
How to research: The U.K. National Archives' guide to searching newspaper archives
BBC Radio: 1914: Day by Day
Goal
Years ago, /u/DanyalEscaped planned to research World War I day by day from 2014 to 2018, exactly 100 years after the events had happened. He realized that using a subreddit might be easier.
In the first week of August 2013, he started this subreddit in hopes that it would have a big and active community by July 2014, the centenary of the war's beginning. The plan worked, and now it is a thriving community, with more than 75,000 subscribers and daily headlines posted from archives around the world.
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[April 2nd, 1924] "Why Blame The Modern Sports Girl—"
10:11 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] At the sentencing of the Hitler-Ludendorff trial. Ludendorff's car drives through the streets of Munich.
15:02 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] Cover page of Top-Notch magazine.
14:49 UTC
[April 1, 1924] Snow at the White House.
12:22 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] The verdicts in the Beer Hall Putsch trial were announced. Adolf Hitler, Ernst Pöhner, Hermann Kriebel and Friedrich Weber were all found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in prison, with a chance of parole in six months. Erich Ludendorff was acquitted.
10:29 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] Frank Capone, brother of Al Capone, is killed by police during the fighting which broke out while leading around 200 gunmen into Cicero, Illinois during the 1924 Chicago Elections in support of Mafia backed Republican politicians.
10:29 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter asks, "What new feature would you suggest for the Tribune's new radio station, W-G-N?"
10:28 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] The cover of April's "Radio News" predicts the "Radio Doctor".
10:28 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] Adolf Hitler is sentenced to prison for five years due to his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. He was released after only 8 months.
10:05 UTC
[April 1st, 1924] Disney releases "Alice's Spooky Adventure"
07:29 UTC
[March 31, 1924] Casper Herald: Floods, Coolidge friendship, Closing "rooming houses".
11:01 UTC
[March 31, 1924] Casper Daily Tribune: Expenses in Dakota Primary Censured, Roosevelt (TR's son) attacked by Senator for role in Teapot Dome, "Too Many Girls" in boarding houses.
10:38 UTC
[March 31st, 1924] Colonel Bristow presents Captain Alfred Instone with a clock, inset on the boss of a propeller, on behalf of the staff of the newly formed Imperial Air Transport Company. The IATC has absorbed separate companies operating the airways between London and the Continent.
09:48 UTC
[March 31st, 1924] Reported that Oswald Mosley, future leader of the British Union of Fascists, has written a letter to Ramsay MacDonald asking to join the Labour Party.
09:48 UTC
[March 31st, 1924] In Portland, Oregon, three federal judges rule the state's Compulsory Education law unconstitutional (to allow for private education).
09:47 UTC
[March 31st, 1924] "Where The Sports Girls Looks Her Best."
09:47 UTC
[March 30, 1924] Casper Herald: East Swept By Storms
11:50 UTC
[March 30, 1924] Casper Sunday Tribune: Storm Toll Is Climbing
11:14 UTC
[March 30th, 1924] "German People's Party Boosts for Monarchy. Republic's Flag Scorned by Stresemann." The German People's Party announced in its election platform that it stood for a "new democratic monarchy".
07:13 UTC
[March 30th, 1924] In the wake of a flood, a group of men, women, and children stand next to train tracks with their salvaged belongings piled onto the embankment of a stream, Ohio.
07:13 UTC
[March 30th, 1924] "Stones For Jews, Cheers For Ford In Bucharest. Roumanians Attack Leading Banker."
07:13 UTC
[March 30th, 1924] "When The Noble Art Is More Than A Coronet."
07:12 UTC
[March 29th, 1924] Daredevil Gladys Roy walking the wings of a Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' biplane over Los Angeles whilst blindfolded.
15:03 UTC
[March 29th, 1924] Funeral of Nicola Bonservizi, a Fascist who was killed by an anarchist in Paris, at la Madeleine.
15:02 UTC
[March 29th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter asks, "Do you like to see men wear burnsides?"
15:02 UTC
[March 29th, 1924] "The Triumph Of The Humble Bicycle."
15:01 UTC