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| Birth of Holiday, Billie Holiday, Billie |  |
| 7th April Baltimore Birth of Billie Holiday |
| Birth of Waters, Muddy Waters, Muddy | |
| 4th April Rolling Fork Birth of McKinley Morganfield, Mississippi |
| Captain Patton, George Smith | |
| Appointed Captain |
| Chairman American Relief Hoover Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| Appointed Chairman of the American Relief Commission in Belgium |
| Election Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| Elected Senator |
| Government Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 12th Jan Washington The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give woment the vote |
| Publication of Holt Holt, Edwin Bissell | |
| Publication of, "The Freudian Wish" |
| Sinking Gulflight Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 1st May Scilly Isles A USAsteamer is torpedoed off the Scilly Isles by a German submarine, 3 lives are lost |
| Sinking Lusitania Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 7th May Kinsale Germany sinks the Cunard liner Lusitania, 1152 lives are lost including 102 Americans |
