/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].
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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
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[December 1, 1924] Fritz Angerstein kills eight people at his home in Germany.
15:31 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] Warner Bros. releases "The Lighthouse By The Sea" starring Rin Tin Tin in theaters
15:10 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] KSAC-AM, the first educational radio station in Kansas, goes on the air
15:09 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] Walt Disney releases his new "Alice Comedy" cartoon, "Alice and the Three Bears"
15:08 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] KKK leader Rice W. Means takes office as a U.S. Senator from Colorado
15:08 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] Public Safety Director Smedley Butler uses a pickaxe to destroy barrels of beer and lets it run into the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15:07 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] Blues musician Sippie Wallace records her song "Walkin' Talkin' Blues"
15:06 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] Irish nationalist activist Mary Spring Rice died in a sanatorium in Clwyd, Wales at the age of 44.
15:05 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] The musical "Lady, Be Good!", with music by George and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, starring brother and sister performers Fred and Adele Astaire, opened at the Liberty Theatre on Broadway for the first of 330 performances.
11:17 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] "Carol-Singing From Within And From Without".
11:16 UTC
[December 1st, 1924] Walter Lantz's The Pied Piper makes use of animation.
10:47 UTC
[December 1, 1924] One of the few positive things about flapper's I've seen in newspapers of the time.
10:21 UTC
[November 30, 1924] World's oldest cat living in Milwaukee Wisconsin (click on the image it's long)
10:25 UTC
[November 30th, 1924] German nationalist candidates throw leaflets from a truck onto the streets of Berlin. The election of the 3rd Reichstag of the Weimar Republic is to be held on 7th of December.
10:13 UTC
[November 30th, 1924] Release of the film "Forbidden Paradise", starring Pola Negri as Catherine the Great (Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch on the set).
10:12 UTC
[November 30th, 1924] "Has Bonar Law Sent A Spirit Message? Amazing Communication for Lord Beaverbrook." (The Sunday People)
10:11 UTC
[November 30th, 1924] "If We Ever Heard English Pure And Undefiled" (Sunday Mirror)
10:11 UTC
[November 30, 1924] American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress, Shirley Chisholm, is born in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
05:13 UTC
[November 30th, 1924] Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Chisholm later became a historic figure when she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, becoming the first Black woman to campaign for the presidency.
21:11 UTC
[November 29th, 1924] The first "fax" sent across the ocean was transmitted from New York City to London as Richard H. Ranger's "wireless photogram" device transmitted a photograph of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
14:40 UTC