An+Inspector+Calls+World+Time+Line

Here is a world time line from 1908 -1912 Sourced from Lee Saunders World timeline (Posted by Damon)


 * 1908 ||
 * January 15th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || US physicist Edward Teller was born In Hungary. He worked on the[|**Manhattan Project**] during WWII, and is known as the 'Father' of the Hydrogen bomb. ||   ||
 * June 30th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The Tunguska Impact occured in Siberia. A meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded above ground and caused devastation. ||   ||
 * August 22nd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, known as the'eye of the century', was born near Paris. He documented some of the major events of the 20th century, Spanish Civil War, liberation of Paris, the fall of Beijing to Mao's communists and the death of Mahatma Gandhi. ||   ||
 * August 27th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Futrue President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson was born. ||   ||
 * September 2nd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || **Valentin Petrovich Glushko** was born. Engines developed under Glushko were installed on all early Soviet launch vehicles including variants of the R-7, which launched the **Sputnik** and **Vostok** missions. ||   ||
 * October 1st ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Henry Ford introduced the Model T car. Price, $850. ||   ||
 * October 5th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Bulgaria gained independence from Turkey. ||   ||
 * October 6th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. ||   ||
 * November 15th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Belgium took over the Congo from King Leopold. ||   ||
 * November 15th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Empress Zi Xi (Tz'-hsi) of China died. ||   ||
 * December 28th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || An earthquake destroyed Messina, Sicily and Calabria and killed over 75,000 people. ||   ||
 * December 31st ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Simon Wiesenthal was born in Austria. Wiesenthal was imprisoned by the Nazi's during WWII and survived. He then became well known as an active hunter of Nazi War criminals. ||   ||


 * 1909 ||
 * January 16th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Ernest Shackleton's expedition found the magnetic South Pole. ||   ||
 * January 15th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The legendary American musician and drummer Gene Krupa was born. ||   ||
 * January 28th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || United States troops left Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. ||   ||
 * February 17th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The native indian and Apache leader Geronimo died. ||   ||
 * March 4th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || President Theodore Roosevelt reached his end of term as 26th President of the United States. Roosevelt was succeeded by William Howard Taft. ||   ||
 * April 27th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Young Turks toppled the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II, who was overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Muhammad V. ||   ||
 * July 16th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || A revolution forced the Persian Shah Mohammad Ali Shah, of the Qajar dynasty. Mohammad Ali Shah abdicated in favour of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. ||   ||
 * September 9th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Halley's Comet was first recorded on a photographic plate. ||   ||
 * November 11th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || US Navy built a naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ||   ||


 * 1910 ||
 * March. ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Uprising against Ottoman rule broke out in Albania. ||   ||
 * April. ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Albanian revolt was suppressed by the Turkish army. ||   ||
 * May 6th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || King Edward VII of the Great Britain died. His son Prince George became King George V. ||   ||
 * May 18th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet . ||   ||
 * May 31st ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The union of South Africa was established. ||   ||
 * August 13th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The 'Lady with the Lamp' English nurse Florence Nightingale died. Nightingale served as a nurse in the Crimean War. ||   ||
 * August 22nd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Japan annexed Korea. ||   ||
 * November 7th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The Wright Brothers used flight for the first time to deliver goods. The commercial freight travelled between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio. ||   ||
 * November 20th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Mexican Revolution exploded Francisco I. Madero denounced President Porfirio Díaz, declared himself President and called for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico. ||   ||
 * November 20th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Russian writer and author of 'War and Peace', Leo Tolstoy died. ||   ||
 * December 16th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || A failed robbery on a jewellers in the East End of London, by four (Latvian) anarchists was the prelude to the Sidney Street Siege. Three policemen were shot and three robbers were captured. Other members of the anarchist gang escaped and went into hiding. ||   ||


 * 1911 ||
 * January 3rd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Britain, the Sidney Street Siege took place in London. The Latvian anarchist gang responsible for a failed robbery on a jewellers in the East End of London on December 16th 1910, were found and cornered. British Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, sent in the troops. ||   ||
 * February 6th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Ronald Reagan, the famous Hollywood actor and later the United States President, was born. ||   ||
 * March 16th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The infamous Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele was born. ||   ||
 * March 24th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Denmark, the death penalty and flogging was abolished. ||   ||
 * March 25th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Jack Ruby was born. The club owner killed of Lee Harvey Oswald live on tv. Oswald was accused of killing President John Kennedy in 1963. ||   ||
 * April 13th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, rebels took Aqua Prieta close to the US border. Government troops retook the town on April 17th when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez was drunk. ||   ||
 * April 19th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, Francisco Madero's troops besieged government troops at Ciudad Juarez and demanded that General Juan J. Navarro surrendered. Navarro refused. ||   ||
 * May 8th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa launched an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without the permission of Francisco Madero. Government troops surrendered on May 10th. ||   ||
 * May 11th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In the United States, American actor and comedian Phil Silvers was born. Silvers starred as Sgt Ernie Bilko in the hit tv series Sgt. Bilko in the 1950s. ||   ||
 * May 18th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler died. ||   ||
 * May 17th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, President Porfirio Díaz was convinced to resign but he does not do it officially. ||   ||
 * May 21st ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, a peace treaty struck between Francisco Madero's rebels and government troops in Ciudad Juarez. ||   ||
 * May 24th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, government troops open fire at and kill 200 people at a anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City. Government officially claimed that only 40 demonstrators were killed by the troops. ||   ||
 * May 25th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, ex-President Porfirio Diaz of mexico signed his resignation and left for Veracruz. ||   ||
 * May 31th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Ex-President Porfirio Diaz left mexico to live in exile in France. ||   ||
 * June 7th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, rebel leader Francisco Madero arrived in Mexico City just after a local earthquake in the region. ||   ||
 * June 15th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In the United States, IBM was incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in New York. ||   ||
 * June 22nd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Britain, the Coronation of King George V and his wife Queen Mary took place at Westminster Abbey in London. ||   ||
 * July 24th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The lost ancient city of Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham. ||   ||
 * August 9th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Raunds, Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), the highest UK temperature until 1990. ||   ||
 * August 10th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Britain, MPs (Members of Parliament) voted to receive paid salaries for the first time. ||   ||
 * August 22nd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In France, the theft of the 'Mona Lisa' was discovered at the Louvre in Paris. Vincenzo Peruggia was captured and the painting returned to the Louvre in 1913. ||   ||
 * September 7th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In France, the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested on suspicion of the theft of the 'Mona Lisa' from the Louvre. Apollinaire was later released from jail. ||   ||
 * September 20th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Britain, the liner RMS Olympic, the sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collided with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside the port of Southampton. ||   ||
 * October 10th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In China, revolution exploded with the 'Wuchang Uprising' against the Manchu dynasty and would lead to the founding of the Republic of China. ||   ||
 * October 16th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In Mexico, Felipe Diaz, nephew of the ex-Mexican President, Porfirio Diaz, occupied the port of Veracruz as a sign of rebellion against the rebel leader of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero. ||   ||
 * October 18th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In China, the Chinese Revolution was successful and the revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen toppled and overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. ||   ||
 * November 3rd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In the United States, Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market to compete with Ford and its Model T. ||   ||
 * November 5th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Italian troops invaded and conquered Libya. Italy annexed Libya's capital Tripoli and Cyrenaica. ||   ||
 * December 11th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In India, the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary took place in New Delhi. The coronation established the King and Queen as both Emperor and Empressof India. ||   ||
 * December 12th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In India, the capital of India was changed to New Delhi from Calcutta, now known as Kolkata. ||   ||
 * December 14th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Roald Amundsen's expedition reached the South Pole. ||   ||
 * December 29th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || In China, as a result of the 'Wuchang Uprising' and the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, Sun Yat-sen became the first President of the Republic of China. ||   ||


 * 1912 ||
 * March 23rd ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || **[|Dr. Wernher von Braun]** was born. The controversial German rocket scientist who developed the V2 rocket for the Nazis, and was a major influence in placing a man on the Moon for the Americans in 1969. ||   ||
 * April 15th ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The unsinkable RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton in England to New York in the USA. The ship collided with an iceberg off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland with the lost of 1,517 lives. ||   ||
 * ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || Wilbur Wright died. One of the brothers who was first to succeed in powered flight in the Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. Wilbur's flight lasted 59 seconds, and managed 852ft. ||   ||
 * ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || War erupted in the Balkans. ||   ||
 * ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The Chinese National Party (Kuomintang) was founded. ||   ||
 * ||||  || [[image:http://www.leesaunders.co.uk/images/central/px.gif align="middle"]] || The African National Congress was founded. ||