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Events relating to america
After an 800-mile journey in an open boat Ernest Shackleton returns to rescue his stranded colleagues in the South Shetlands
The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US
Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies
Woodrow Wilson wins re-election as US president after campaigning on the slogan 'He kept us out of war'
Marcel Duchamp submits a ceramic urinal to the Society of Independent Artists in New York, giving it the title Fountain
New York responds with enthusiasm when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band performs a new kind of music in Reisenweber's restaurant
The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives
Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props
Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy
The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography
Race riots against migrant southern blacks in East St Louis, Missouri, leave forty-eight dead
A massive explosion devastates Halifax, in Canada, after a collision involving a French munitions ship
The US Congress passes the Eighteenth Amendment, legislating for the introduction of Prohibition
A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico
Woodrow Wilson, president of the USA, declares war on Germany
German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone
Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge, subsequently the site of Canada's most important war memorial
The Allies frustrate the German U-boats by introducing the convoy system
In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier
President Woodrow Wilson formulates fourteen detailed proposals as a basis for world peace once the conflict has ended
US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos
H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English
Employers' refusal to allow collective bargaining prompts a general strike in Winnipeg, the largest dispute of its kind in Canada's history
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland
