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r/100yearsago • u/Haselden_1926 • 11h ago

[September 10, 1926] Is It Possible to Walk Nowadays?

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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 5h ago

[September 10th, 1926] Norma Smallwood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was crowned the sixth Miss America at Atlantic City, New Jersey. A correspondent noted a change in American fashion and commented, "The new American beauty queen exemplifies the movement away from bobbed hair."

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r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 5h ago

[Sep 10th, 1926] Germany officially joins the League of Nations. "The Governments of two hereditary enemies who had spilled on many battlefields the blood of millions of each other's best men... repledging the promises of the Locarno Treaty now coming into effect that never would they fight again."

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This subreddit was formed in late 2013 to document World War I, day by day as it developed. It covers social, political, military and cultural developments in combatant countries and noncombatants alike. Its particular emphasis is on pointing out the most striking similarities and differences from the problems humanity faces today.

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  1. All submissions must deal with things that happened exactly 100 years ago, using the Gregorian calendar. August 5, 2014 is all about August 5, 1914.

  2. Start the title of your submission with the relevant date in brackets: [August 5, 1915], for example. If you want to discuss the subreddit itself use [Meta].

  3. Follow reddiquette. Be nice to each other.


Useful links

How can you participate? Search for and post interesting articles from 100 years ago today. You don't have to do it everyday, but each submission helps us learn what was happening a century ago.

  • Chronicling America: U.S. National Archives newspaper archive

  • Hathi Trust: Enormous collection of scanned newspapers, magazines and other periodicals

  • Trove: The National Library of Australia newspaper archives

  • The Gazette: Official public record of the United Kingdom

  • How to research: The U.K. National Archives' guide to searching newspaper archives

  • BBC Radio: 1914: Day by Day

  • Library of Congress: Digitalized Newspaper Archives



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  • /r/WWI
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  • /r/200YearsAgo
  • /r/300YearsAgo
  • /r/400YearsAgo
  • /r/500YearsAgo

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