Nebraska becomes the 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment, securing enough votes to ban alcohol nationwide across the United States.

Delegates from 32 nations convened in Paris to negotiate the peace settlement ending World War I, a process that would produce the Treaty of Versailles.

Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference formalized the Council of Ten to decide the postwar order after World War I.

Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference wrangled over German reparations and territorial claims as the shape of postwar Europe took form.

Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, the man who would break Major League Baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing Grand Canyon National Park, protecting one of Earth's great natural wonders after decades of mining and development pressure.

Germany's National Assembly opened in Weimar, drafting the constitution for the fragile republic born from imperial collapse.

British troops under General Reginald Dyer opened fire without warning on thousands of unarmed protesters in Amritsar, killing hundreds and igniting India's independence movement.

Mustafa Kemal landed at the Black Sea port of Samsun, an act now marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence.

John Alcock and Arthur Brown landed their modified Vickers Vimy bomber in an Irish bog, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland.

German sailors scuttled 52 of their own interned warships at Scapa Flow rather than hand the fleet to the Allies after World War One.

Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors, formally ending World War I and imposing crushing reparations and territorial losses.

Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, formally ending World War I and imposing crushing reparations and territorial losses.

Greek forces occupied additional Aegean coastal areas of Anatolia, deepening the crisis that fueled the Turkish War of Independence under Mustafa Kemal.

Woodrow Wilson's push for a new world order continued amid controversy, as debates over the Amritsar massacre's aftermath simmered in colonial India.

On the first anniversary of the Armistice, King George V led Britain in the first official two-minute silence to honor the dead of the First World War.