1918

1918 wasn’t just a pandemic year. Here’s what else was going on:

WWI: Wilson proposes Fourteen Points for world peace

British government abandons Home Rule for Ireland

Ex-Czar Nicholas II and family executed

Women over 30 get the vote in Britain

Books: Cather, “My Antonia,” Huxley, “The Defeat of Youth,” Tarkington, “The Magnificent Ambersons”

Billy Graham born

Controversy over Freud’s theories

United Lutheran Church established in America

Mount Wilson telescope completed near Pasadena, CA

First Tanglewood Music Festival

First airmail service est between NY and Washington

Daylight saving time intoduced in America

Eight hour work day established by law in Germany

Knute Rockne named head football coach at Notre Dame

Total population of the US: 103.5 million

Missouri last state to ratify compulsory school attendance law

And that’s just a portion of what was going on; I didn’t include any war statistics or even mention the flu that was rampaging. The world just doesn’t stop, does it? No matter what it feels like from our safe homes.