1678 – The Godiva procession through Coventry begins. Now there’s a tax protest.
1884 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal”
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. FEMA slow to respond. Bush widely blamed.
1911 – R.M.S. Titanic launched. This will end well.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe &Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. The VW Beetle (Type 111) finally beat that production number, topping out at 21,529,464, 15,444,858 being built in Germany.
Since Lady Godiva rode sidesaddle, you now know where the expression “Hurray for our side” originated.
Interestingly, the battle of Jutland can be considered decisive. The German Navy realized that they had just barely escaped from what they considered to be “a trap.”
Since the Surface forces could not influence the war, the Kaiser authorized unrestriced submarine warfare again, in an attempt to strike at Britain.
The submarines were a primary cause of the United States entry into the war in April of 1917.
The United States entry into the war provided manpower anf money that enabled the German army’s last offensive to be blocked then reversed. The allied armies decisively defeated the German army in the late summer and fall of 1918.
SO – the battle of Jutland decided the war – kind of.