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1915

The rules have changed!! ! Give aN historical fact for anyone's postcount!

Einstein formulated his theory of general relativity.

Mine is now 199 (I guess that could be A.D. or B.C).

Yay! 1916

Oh, for your postcount; 1916, hmmmmmm, nothing immediately leaps to mind.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America

Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph dies at the young age of 86, after having ruled over Austria for 68 years.

The Boston Red Sox win their second consecutive World Series, and their 4th since 1903.

US President Woodrow Wilson narrowly wins reelection against his Republican opponent, future Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. It was said that the clean-shaven Wilson beat the hirsute Hughes "by a shave."

Also, I think I've heard that there was a war on or something. I don't know, I'm not an expert.

1917

hmm...i'll look into this "war" of yours werbert...

World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins

very well!

1918

edit for werbert: I can't post again until I have a fact for 1918

America enters World War I.

Senator Robert C. Byrd, of West Virginia, is born. He just got reelected to a new, six-year term this year.

Another glorious chapter in French military history takes place, as they launch the Nivelle Offensive.

The Russian people get sick of being lorded over by the Czar (March), and decide they want to be lorded over by communists (October).

That was for 1917.

1918.

The Red Sox win their last World Series for 86 years.

An flu outbreak kills 50 million people worldwide.

During the US midterm elections, Woodrow Wilson implies that keeping a Democratic majority in the House and Senate will help the war effort. The move backfires as the Republicans take over Congress.

Freiherr (Baron) Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, is killed by an Allied anti-aircraft unit. Richthofen, the supreme fighter ace of World War I, was credited with 80 kills. He terrorized Allied pilots, and fought many a dogfight with his counterpart on the other side, Captain Snoopy.

Snoopy had so much respect for the Red Baron that he started a line of frozen pizzas named for his erstwhile foe. Thus he began the Tombstone pizza company.

you just did 1917!

arghh...stupid rebel without a cause...

Treaty of Versailles

i'm confused

i already did 1918!

it was WWI one

1919, what a great number!

1919

The German Empire ends as the Weimar Republic is declared.

Treaty of Versailles officially ends World War I. The Treaty fails to get ratified in the United States Senate.

The Red Scare overtakes the United States. US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer leads the charge against any foreigners whose politics even gave a hint of a leftward lean. Palmer's home is bombed during this.

Prohibition begins. Yayyy!

1920

The originial genial idiot, Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio, is elected President of the United States. He defeats his home state's Governor, James Cox, whose runningmate was former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, of New York. The irony of the term "runningmate" would become apparent later when FDR was stricken with polio and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Despite dying in office in 1923, President Harding came back to life and, taking the pseudonym "Warren G." had a hit single with Nate Dogg in the early 90s called "Regulate."