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1900
Oct 23
| 1900 • Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith. |
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 • General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. |
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 Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to promote repeal of Prohibition in the United States. |