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1900
Oct 23
| 1900 • The Second Boer War: At the Battle of Spion Kop, Boer troops defeat the British Army. |
1915
Age: 14y
| 1915 • First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California. |
1918
Oct
Age: 17y
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deathArgonne, France ⇓ Died during the battle at Argonne, France he was shot in the thigh by an explosive machine gun bullet, and died the next day in a hospital in Dijon, France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse-Argonne_Offensive 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1918 • The United States Post Office Department begins the world's third regular airmail service, between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C..The first was from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on 18 February 1911 and the second from London to Windsor Castle on 22 June 1911. |
1918
Oct
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burialSaint-Mihiel, France ⇓ Buried with 4,153 American soldiers at the The World War I St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial in France. |
| 1918 • The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force. |