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Female 1918 - 1919  (1 year)


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   Date  Event(s)
1914 
  • 1914—1918: WAR: World War I.Triple Alliance - Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente - Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
1918 
  • 1918—1918: HISTORY: .Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918—1919: EPEDEMIC: Influenza pandemic.The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as Spanish Flu or La Grippe the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
1919 
  • 1919—1919: HISTORY: .Pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.