The Great War: 100 Years Ago

The Austro-Hungarian submarine U-5 captained by Georg Johannes von Trapp sinks the French cruiser Léon Gambetta south of the Otranto Straits.  Von Trapp would gain imortal fame with the creation of a movie about his and his children's life, The Sound of… more »

The traditional date marking the start of the Armenian Genocide with the deportation of Armenian intellectuals by Ottoman officials in Constantinople. more »

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her… more »

Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first war ace by shooting down his fifth aircraft (he would shoot another aircraft down later this month).  Few pilots in the war would become aces, and it was generally recognized as a significant accomplishment. more »