[May 5th, 1920] Lenin speaks to Red Army troops leaving for the front at Moscow’s Sverdlov Square3wk · MonsieurA · r/100yearsago
[May 16, 1920] Szmul Rzeszewski, an 8-year-old boy, makes world headlines when he defeats 20 challengers in Paris, including some of the best chess players on earth, simultaneously.2wk · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[January 12, 1920] Within Our Gates, director Oscar Micheaux's response to the racist message of The Birth of a Nation, is released. Today it is believed to be the earliest surviving film made by an African-American director4mo · Auir2blaze · r/100yearsago
[January 11, 1920] The Garage was released to movie theaters. It was the last movie Buster Keaton made with Roscoe Arbuckle before striking out on his own5mo · Auir2blaze · r/100yearsago
[January 17, 1920] Prohibition begins: Chicago police show off their first day of alcohol seizures.4mo · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[May 10, 1920] The Flapper, starring Olive Thomas, was released, helping to introduce the concept of the flapper into American popular culture2wk · Auir2blaze · r/100yearsago
[September 12, 1919] As an army political agent, Adolf Hitler was sent to report on an emerging far-right group, the German Workers' Party (later renamed the Nazi Party). Finding he agreed with their nationalist, anti-Semitic beliefs, he joins the obscure group as its seventh member.9mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[February 9, 1920] My grandfather wanted to be a cartoonist. He worked for the railroad instead, sending home many letters.3mo · Ignorantsportsguy · r/100yearsago
[January 31, 1920] German silent film star Gilda Langer dies at the age of 23. Although she worked with major directors of the time like Fritz Lang and Paul Leni today all of the films she made are believed to be lost4mo · Auir2blaze · r/100yearsago
[January 16, 1920] Men queued around the block at a “last call” liquor sale in Detroit hours before nationwide Prohibition prevents any alcohol sale for the next 12 years4mo · The70th · r/100yearsago
[July 27th, 1919] A member of the state militia faces off against an African-American veteran during the 1919 Chicago Race Riot. July 27, 1919.11mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[Oct 2, 1919] Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke which leaves him bedridden and paralyzed. His wife, Edith Wilson, secretly attends to his duties while he is ill.8mo · langis_on · r/100yearsago
[November 4, 1919] The Old Treadmill, The Washington Times, cartoon.7mo · Scarlettail · r/100yearsago
[December 25th, 1919] Brother and sister pose with the Christmas tree with all their presents from Santa underneath.5mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[August 6, 1919] “With the latest guns, the Boston Police will be ready to face the Reds with severity should they try anything.”10mo · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[October 5 1919] Enzo Ferrari, an Italian car mechanic and engineer, enters his first race. He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but not great. He won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Some say he cared too much for the sports cars he drove and could never ruin an engine in order to win.8mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[March 5, 1919] Comic strip by W.K. Haselden, as published in the Daily Mirror on March 5, 1919, accurately predicts the future nightmares of cell phones.1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[April 8, 1920] The Chicago Post Office has adopted roller skates for its clerks as they enable them to work more rapidly, thereby saving valuable time. Photo shows two clerks with skates handling parcel post.1mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[July 9, 1919] World needs a League of Nations to stop a future generation of German people fed nothing but revenge11mo · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[December 28, 1919] A little Siberian maid and the three Russian bear cubs that pull her sleigh over the snow crust to and from school at a lively clip. Northern Russia has so far escaped the ravages of Bolshevism.5mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[December 20, 1919] Turkeys hang in a butcher shop in England, ready for sale at Christmas5mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[April 12th, 1920] Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the 'Red Napoleon', is photographed1mo · MonsieurA · r/100yearsago
[February 6, 1920] Police Officer helps woman through blinding snow during record blizzard in Boston.4mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[February 13, 1919] Sgt. Henry Johnson of the 369th Infantry Regiment (The Harlem Hellfighters) after being awarded the Croix du Guerre for gallantry1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[January 15, 1919] 'The Boston Molassacre' occurred when tank containing molasses exploded creating a deadly 15' tall wave of molasses.1yr · Evansly · r/100yearsago
[April 18th, 1920] The grandstands are packed for a Braves-Dodgers game.1mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[March 25, 1920] Excavation for the Reflecting Pool at the US Capital. Work on the new Lincoln Memorial grounds is underway. Excavating for the big mirror lake.2mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[March 2 1920] A man sprays the inside of a London General Omnibus Co bus with anti-flu preparation during the flu epidemic, London3mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[November 17, 1919] Signs of the Times, The Washington Times, cartoon.6mo · Scarlettail · r/100yearsago
[November 13, 1918] The British enter Constantinople. It’s the first time a non-Muslim Army has been in the city since 1453.1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[April 8, 1920] On a visit to Hawaii, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) becomes the first member of the British royal family to try surfing1mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[May 4, 1919] Over 3000 students from universities in Beijing gather in front of Tiananmen to protest the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.1yr · bluecookies123 · r/100yearsago
[January 20, 1920] Born this day, DeForest Kelley (d. June 11, 1999), known to colleagues as Dee, was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer known for his roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991).4mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[January 1, 1920] The first front page of the New York Times for 1920.5mo · Scarlettail · r/100yearsago
[July 20, 1919] United Kingdom flag created out of a giant human formation 191911mo · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[January 28, 1920] Influenza update: over 3600 cases reported in one day in NYC.4mo · Scarlettail · r/100yearsago
[November 17, 1918] Early dinosaur film The Ghost of Slumber Mountain was first shown to movie audiences1yr · Auir2blaze · r/100yearsago
[April 10th, 1920] A section of the crowd at Stamford Bridge for the football match between Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday.1mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[January 14, 1920] Ain't you going to do nothin'?, Evening Public Ledger, cartoon.4mo · Scarlettail · r/100yearsago
[May 29, 1919] Irritated with burned toast that was served in the cafeteria at the manufacturing plant in Stillwater, Minnesota where he worked during World War I, Charles Strite invented a pop-up toaster with a variable timer. He filed a patent for the first pop-up toaster on this day.1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[September 21, 1919] 84 Years Old Civil War Veteran of Philadelphia, Wearing at the Fifty-third G. A. R. Reunion at Columbus, Ohio, the Exact Equipment with which He Marched Away to the War with the 71st Pennsylvania Regiment in 18619mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[February 9, 1919] an amputee soldier of “the Harlem Hellfighters” (369th Infantry Regiment) at his his Regiment’s welcome home parade1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[July 15, 1919] An unidentified couple posed for a photo just after getting engaged on July 15, 1919.11mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[March 22nd, 1920] The Accuser by Rollin Kirby, cartoon on the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Versailles Treaty2mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[February 7, 1920] Found this in my mom’s closet while cleaning the other day. Published 100 years ago today!4mo · clementine2718 · r/100yearsago
[Decembre 1st, 1919] Nancy Astor enters the House of Commons on a monday morning, effectively becoming the first ever elected female MP to be granted a seat in the British Parliament. She would later bring about great changes within, among other things, women’s rights.6mo · ImDahSnipah · r/100yearsago
[September 30th, 1919] Hollywood: Harold Lloyd victim of a gag that misfired8mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[January 26, 1920] The New York Times reported over 2800 new influenza cases with around 8800 total in NYC.4mo · Scarlettail · r/100yearsago
[April 6, 1920] Jack Johnson shaking hands with Billy Silver, Deputy Sheriff of Imperial County, California. One step more and Johnson would be on United States soil and under arrest for bail-jumping in Chicago 8 years before.1mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[December 16, 1919] Siberian Mother Mourns Sons Killed by Tsarist Troops5mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[June 6, 1919] Million Armenians slain; babies drowned and priests brutally tortured by Turks. Thousands of bodies in one pit. So many bodies hurled into one river that it overflowed its banks1yr · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[October 7th, 1919] A group of men inspecting a tank parked at Lincoln's Inn, London, during an inquiry.8mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[January 8th, 1920] In the Russian Civil War Admiral Alexander Kolchak, nominally the leader of the Whites (since Nov. 1918), is defeated at Krasnoyarsk and withdraws across Siberia to Irkutsk, where his Czech allies hand him over to the Bolsheviks. He is summarily executed (7 Feb.).5mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[November 22, 1919] A Black mother cries over Lynching in America6mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[June 7th, 1917] Aftermath of 19 mines placed underneath German positions near Messines by the British on June 7, 1917. ~ 10K troops died. One of the biggest non-nuclear blasts ever, it was audible in Dublin & London.3yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[November 3, 1918] A BEF soldier comforts a wounded Belgian baby whose parents were killed by a German shell1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[December 14, 1919] As more and more British soldiers are killed in Ireland the military start fortifying their barracks6mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[December 10, 1919] Autochrome picture of French Senegalese soldiers standing to attention under an Armenian flag, in Cilicia, Turkey. Probably during the short-lived Armenian Autonomous Zone when the Allies were trying to set up a home for refugees and survivors of the Armenian Genocide6mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[May 21, 1919] The House of Representatives votes 304-89 in favor of approving the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.1yr · caroliner416 · r/100yearsago
[March 15th, 1920] White House Photographers. Portrait of still and motion picture cameramen as they wait to photograph the President outside the White House, Washington DC, March 15, 1920.2mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[May 25 1919] Lenin on Red Square in Moscow during Vsevobuch celebrations - Photo: Nappelbaum. Colour by Klimbim1yr · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[July 22, 1919] Hippy emerges from the desert to teach New Yorkers how to live off $5 a week ($72 in 2019)11mo · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[October 8, 1919] The Bodensee airship lands in Stockholm, the only landing of a zeppelin in Sweden8mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[June 10, 1919] My grandfather was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here’s the only baby picture I have of him.1yr · erzebetta · r/100yearsago
[September 18, 1919] Thousands of trucks abandoned by the Americans in France8mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[November 23, 1919] Fighting the White Plague - Several hundred modern young crusaders—Philadelphia school children—form a living tuberculosis double cross6mo · Its_Happning_Again · r/100yearsago
[December 30th, 1919] The children of Dr Barnardo's Girls Home at Ilford enjoying a Christmas treat at the theatre. Some of the players who are 'blacked up' sit among the audience.5mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[July 30, 1917] 100 years ago today my great grandparents bought this 80 acre farm in central Michigan. About half of their 509 descendants were able to attend the centennial celebration this afternoon.3yr · Waboritafan · r/100yearsago
[May 23rd, 1920] The 1920 map of Europe after official treaties and unofficial conventions1wk · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[April 2, 1917] President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany3yr · ZadocPaet · r/100yearsago
[June 15, 1919] An eleven-year-old Frida Kahlo (7/06/1907–7/13/1954) is captured in portrait by her photographer father Guillermo Kahlo (10/26/1871–4/14/1941), who titled the photo “Frida Kahlo, June 15, 1919.” (Museo Frida Kahlo)1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[September 9th, 1919] President Wilson smiles from a train in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 9, 1919, during a train trip across the country to promote the League of Nations. The trip proved too exhausting for Wilson, and he suffered a stroke soon after returning to Washington.9mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[June 23, 1919] This picture by Cartoonist Bob Satterfield is printed on at least three June 23, 1919 papers1yr · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[June 2, 1919] After having abandoned his first wife Mileva Maric and two children, Albert Einstein remarries with Elsa Löwenthal, his double cousin, on June 2, 1919. Indeed, their two mothers, Pauline and Fanny, were sisters, while their two fathers were first cousins.1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[February 11, 1919] Egyptians protest against British rule in Cairo. Note that one carries an American flag.1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[April 11, 1919] In Lens, France, a married couple living in the cellar of their former home, which is in complete ruins. (Library of Congress)1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[November 11th, 1918] Cheering crowds on a London bus greet the signing of the Armistice, 11 November 1918. At last the war was over- and in time for Christmas, though four years too late to save 10 million lives.1yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[January 7, 1919] a Sparticist machinegun position atop the Brandenburg gate1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[May 3rd, 1920] A worker at the Baltic Exchange in London, the centre of the ship chartering business.3wk · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[4 Feb. 1920] U.S. businessman Ohio Columbus (called O.C.) Barber (b. 20 April 1841) died. He was called America's Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company which had 85% of the market in 1881. By 1894 his manufacturing plant produced 250 million matches a day.4mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[June 3, 1919] Vegetarian Cafeteria at the corner of 3rd and Hill Streets, downtown Los Angeles1yr · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[July 5] I just got a German WWI gas mask, and the filter is dated 100 yeard ago today.2yr · herrtable · r/100yearsago
[Dec. 4, 1919] No more crank-starts as first self-starting Ford car arrives in Alaska — Daily Alaska Empire6mo · The_Alaskan · r/100yearsago
[December 8th, 1918] Paris boy views the celebration of the signing of the armistice in the Place de la Concorde from the retroussé nose of a German trophy1yr · MonsieurA · r/100yearsago
[March 1st, 1917] Washington, D.C.: Germany urges Mexico to invade U.S.3yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[June 6, 1918] 2 time Medal of Honor recipient, Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph 'Dan' Daly, yelled at the men of the 73rd Machine Gun Company “Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?”2yr · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[February 5th, 1917] The American Immigration Act of 1917 passes through congress and becomes law, overriding President Wilson's veto.3yr · fromSean · r/100yearsago
[December 21st, 1918] Le soldat Bouvier, Propriété d\\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 15 0811yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[May 14th, 1920] Staff of the Wireless Telephone Service Brigade at work.2wk · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[May 13th, 1918] British soldiers with their rabbits and fowls and the improvised pen in which they are kept. Near Albert, 13 May 1918. Note a pot full of eggs laid by the hens.2yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[February 21, 1920] Dora (another envelope drawn by my great-grandfather)3mo · Ignorantsportsguy · r/100yearsago
[July 10, 1919] Author Aldous Huxley marries Maria Nys, a wartime Belgian refugee. 0ne year later they had a son named Matthew. It is said that their marriage was intensively close and happy. The marriage age lasted until 1955 when Maria died breast cancer.11mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[January 30th, 1920] J.B. Hayes, White House messenger, 1/30/20. This is J.B. Hayes who for 16 years has been employed at the White House as a messenger. It is Mr. Hayes who carries all official communications to congress from the president.4mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[January 2, 1919] Cpl. George Miner, a Winnebago Indian, guarding the German frontier1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[Dec 11] 100 Years Ago Today - Hydro-Electric Yonge Street store interior with Christmas decorations6mo · comics0026 · r/100yearsago
[January 27, 1920] Three children were on their way by rail after being “shipped by express from Paris to Spokane” at a cost of $507.30. Their parents had left them to live with an uncle near Paris in 1911 and had intended to fetch the kids much earlier, but the world war intervened.4mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[October 17th, 1919] Growing Sugar In New York City: Park Commissioner Gallatin holds up a sugar beet planted in the garden plot at Bryant Park for the purpose of showing New Yorkers how easy it is to grow your own sugar, New York, October 17, 1919.8mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[April 22, 1919] San Francisco hosts one of the most joyous parties ever seen on Market Street as thousands of soldiers returned from World War I. The 91st Division, nicknamed the Wild West Division, had been in France for more than a year, fighting in the Ypres-Lys and Meuse-Argonne offensives.1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[June 30, 1919] American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction, H. P. Lovecraft (right) stands with Rheinhart Kleiner in front of his home at 598 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island.11mo · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[June 3 1918] 700 Dead in Spain due to new plague. Over 100,000 people struck by mysterious disease now spreading to Morocco probably from the movement of Spanish2yr · Thats_JustGreat · r/100yearsago
[December 7th, 1918] JC Leyendecker, World War I Santa, The Saturday Evening Post cover art, December 7, 1918.1yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[March 14, 1919] Three happy doughboys just off a transport from Europe. After 18 months overseas, the first thing they did was buy Yankee pastry pies and dig in. New York, New York, March 14, 1919.1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[October 18th, 1919] Eamon de Valera in Indian Headdress, 18 October 19198mo · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[February 21, 1919] Died this day at age 86, MARY EDWARDS WALKER (11/26/1832), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the first and only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor for her service in the Civil War.1yr · cabeachgal · r/100yearsago
[November 5, 1918] Pfc. Edwin McCarter dancing on roller skates for his comrades in Bordeaux1yr · NordyNed · r/100yearsago
[April 27th, 1918] American black soldiers, cooks of the hospital train No. 54, at Horreville, 27 April 1918.2yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
[February 1st, 1917] During a potato shortage, a market trader offers pineapples as an alternative, 1 February 1917.3yr · michaelnoir · r/100yearsago
