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1900
Oct 23
| 1900 • Australasian prospector Albert Fuller Ellis identifies phosphate deposits on the Pacific Islands of Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island). |
1915
Age: 14y
| 1915 • Lassen Peak, one of the Cascade Volcanoes in California, erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars. It is the last volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States until the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. |
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 • A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia (Eastern Europe). |
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 Union of Alba Iulia is proclaimed: Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania. |