Clearly an era for theft, 1907 saw the first and only train robbery in Sweden, and daylight robbery become commonplace the world over, as the first taxis were fitted with meters.

Such thefts need to be investigated. If only there were some kind of bureau which dealt with investigations. It wouldn't even have to be federal or anything.

 

How handy! In 1908, the Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI was founded. And there was much rejoicing (mainly in India, where they'd caught that tiger).

It was good that they caught that tiger as the screams of the victims could have made some people deaf. But if people did become deaf, they could always pay a visit to Utah, where the Association of the Deaf was founded in 1909.

And if they had stayed for a year, they could have joined the newly formed Boy Scouts of America. Too bad about Florence Nightingale - she won't be joining anything any more.

Those Boy Scouts could have had some days out as the first long-distance
auto race in the US was held on May 30 1911 in Indianapolis.

Just so long as they don't go really long distance and cross the Atlantic on the RMS Titanic. I've got a bad feeling in my water about that one.

ON Sunday, April 27, 1913, the body of Mary Phagan, a child laborer, was discovered in the basement of the National Pencil Company factory in Marietta, Georgia. Leo Frank, was arrested and charged, tried, found guilty of murder and sentenced to hang. The sentence was later commuted.

On August 16, 1915 twenty-five men abducted him from his cell and lynched him the next day in Marietta.

In the aftermath of his murder, the Anti-Defamation League was formed and campaigned vigorously for a posthumous pardon.

This was finally granted in 1985.

And in 1986, Steve was born (aww) 

That's a shame abuot the child labourer, because Marcella Gruelle of Indianapolis created the Raggedy Ann doll in 1914, but poor old Mary never got a chance to play with it.

 

Something else important happened in 1914 aswell, though i'm buggered if i can remember what it was.

You've ruined it now. Arsehole.

I only added one year,

COCK-GUZZLING-FART-MONKEY :@ 

Yuo were supposed to post about 1914 though. The fact that Jon went on to mention other years is irrelevant.

 

And i'm not even going to mention the fact that you made number 1914 when i was busy researching and typing mine, making me look stupid.

 

Anyway, let's just forget it and carry on. Something that farmers in Kansas may have had trouble doing in 1918 when some very hot winds caused serious damage to their crops.

Similarly, people in Germany were going to have hard time forgetting the weakness that the Weimar Republic was displaying throughout 1919, signing treaties and surviving Sparticist revolutions left right and centre. Perhaps they should have taken a leaf about strong leadership out of Mr Mussolini's book, which was probably available at the time, as he had just founded his Fascist movement. The most important event of 1919 that resonates through history still, however, is the imposition of Oregon's imposition of a tax levy on gasoline, becoming the first US state to do so.

Fucking juvenile is what you lot are, and you will reap your just desserts; unless those aging do-gooders who formed The Child Welfare League of America bail you out.

In 1921, from the ashes of the once great Ottoman Empire, the land of Turkey was formed. This new country took the world by storm, providing all sorts of dubios meat-based products to drunken revellers in every city of the globe.

 

Oh, they made a cool flag, too.

And, as Darren should well know, in 1922 the Irish Free State was founded. And look how well that went!
It was also the year that the first US aircraft carrier was launched, namely the USS Langley. And that did a lot of good too :/ 

And in 1923 the KKK was exposed, and by 1930 them crackers had dropped from 5 million to about 9000. :Y 

The theme of such happy events continues into 1924 when, if my memory of my history A level is correct, as Hitler's Munich putch goes pear shaped and he goes to prison. And a cuddly socialist chap called Matteotti stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and accused Mussolini of rigging the elections, and being a general bastard. O'course, his story ends a little less happily, as, purely coincidentally, he gets dragged into a car on his way home, and is found the next day with a metal file protruding from his chest.

...and then Il Duce continues his fun and games by telling everyone that they're Fascist, and he's their dictator. And they all go, "Mwuh? Uh. Okay." Oh, and the KKK has a bit of a resurgence in Washington.

 

Still, on the upside, 1925 also saw the signing of the Locarno Pact, /and/ the introduction of London's first double decker busses!

Although the busses no doubt stopped running, when we had a bit of a general strike, in 1926. Just a few days after somebody tried to kill that Mussolini chap. In fact, seems like a bad year for dictators, as someone had a pop at Primo, over in Spain, too. Which I've always considered a bit harsh. I mean, yes, he staged a military coup and overthrew the government, but he wasn't all that nasty, and he was genuinely delusional, and thought he was in tune with the Spanish public. Which'll be why he withdrew Spain from the League of Nations.