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5 days ago · “1917” is a gripping war movie directed by Sam Mendes, inspired by his grandfather’s experiences in World War I. It won three Academy Awards and features intense battle sequences and breathtaking cinematography.
3 days ago · First Offensive Battle of Verdun, 24 October – 2 November 1916. On 20 October 1916, the French began the First Offensive Battle of Verdun ( 1ère Bataille Offensive de Verdun ), to recapture Fort Douaumont, with an advance of more than 1.2 mi (2 km).
- 21 February – 18 December 1916, (9 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
- French victory
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1 day ago · Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War [a] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet ...
2 days ago · The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced ...
5 days ago · 1917: Famine in German East Africa: German East Africa: 300,000: 1917–1919: Persian famine of 1917–1919: Iran: 2,000,000, but estimates range as high as 10,000,000: 1918–1919: Rumanura famine in Ruanda-Burundi, causing large migrations to the Congo: Rwanda and Burundi (present day) [citation needed] 1919–1922: Kazakh famine of 1919–1922.
4 days ago · September 10 – September 15: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas. September 22 – The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States. September 28 – Omaha Riot: A lynch mob besieges the police station and courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska, and lynches alleged rapist Will Brown.
1 day ago · Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916; however in 1917 the Greeks were driven from the area by Italy, which took over most of Albania. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 awarded the area to Greece.
