February 23rd
In 1900, Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
March 17th
In 1900, the coldest St. Patrick's Day ever in Cleveland is celebrated, 0 degrees.
April 11th
In 1900, The U.S. Navy's first Submarine debut.
April 23rd
In 1900, Stalin addresses a workers' May Day meeting in the region of Salt Lake, on the outskirts of Tiflis.
April 30th
In 1900, engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad was killed in a wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi, after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers.
May 31st
In 1900, British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg.
In 1900, U.S. troops arrive in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.
June 30th
In 1900, Hoboken, N.J.: piers of North German Lloyd Steamship line burned; 326 dead.
July 1st
In 1900, Stalin establishes contact with V. K. Kurnatovsky, a well-known supporter of Lenin's Iskra, who had arrived in Tiflis for Party work.
July 12th
In 1900, 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Basin, Wyoming (state record).
August 10th
In 1900, Stalin leads a mass strike at the Central Railway Workshops in Tiflis.
August 14th
In 1900, international forces - including 2,000 U.S. Marines - entered Beijing to put down th e Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
August 27th
In 1900, thru Sept. 15, hurricane in Galveston, Tex. and Texas Gulf Coast: more than 6,000 died in hur ricane and tidal wave.
September 8th
In 1900, a hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas, killing between 6,000 and 7,200 people, mainly in a 20-foot-high tidal surge (the deadliest storm in U.S. history).
September 10th
In 1900, 20.3 cm rainfall at Each Point, South Dakota (state record).
October 9th
In 1900, 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska.
November 30th
In 1900, a German engineer patents front-wheel drive for autos.
December 27th
In 1900, militant prohibitionist Carry Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas.

February 2nd
In 1901, Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization.
In 1901, the U.S. Army Dental Corps was established by Congress.
March 21st
In 1901, Stalin's lodgings at the Tiflis Physical Observatory are searched by the police.
March 28th
In 1901, Stalin leaves the Tiflis Physical Observatory and goes underground.
April 22nd
In 1901, Stalin leads the workers' May Day dem-onstration in the Soldatsky Market Place, in the center of Tiflis.
May 3rd
In 1901, Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 2nd
In 1901, Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana.
August 14th
In 1901, SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70.
September 2nd
In 1901, No. 1 of the illegal newspaper Brdzola, the organ of the revolutionary wing of the Georgian Marxists published on the initiative of J. V. Stalin, appears in Baku. The article "From the Editors," outlining the program of the newspaper which appeared in that issue, was written by J. V. Stalin.
November 11th
In 1901, Stalin is elected a member of the first Tiflis Committee of the RSDLP, which followed the Leninist-Iskra trend.
November 27th
In 1901, The War Department auth orized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan.
November 28th
In 1901, The Tiflis Committee sends J. V. Stalin to Batum to form a Social-Democratic organization there.
December 5th-25th
In 1901, No. 2-3 of Brdzola appears, containing J. V. Stalin's article "The Russian Social-Democratic Party and Its Immediate Tasks."
In 1901, Stalin establishes contact with the advanced workers in Batum and organizes Social-Democratic circles at the Rothschild, Mantashev Sideridis, and other plants.
December 31st
In 1901, Stalin organizes in the guise of a New Year's party a secret conference of representatives of Social-Democratic study circles. The conference elects a leading group, headed by J. V. Stalin, which acted virtually as the Batum Committee of the RSDLP of the Leninist-Iskra trend.

January
In 1902, Stalin organizes in Batum an underground printing plant, writes leaflets and organizes the printing and distribution of manifestoes.
January 31st-February 17th
In 1902, Stalin organizes a strike at the Mantashev plant which ends in the victory of the workers.
February 27th-beginning of March
In 1902, Stalin directs the activities of the strike committee during a strike at the Rothschild plant.
March 8th
In 1902, Stalin leads a demonstration of strikers who demand the release of 32 of their arrested fellow strikers.
March 9th
In 1902, Stalin organizes and leads a political demonstration of over 6,000 workers employed in the various plants in Batum who demand the release of 300 worker-demonstrators arrested by the police on March 8. Outside the prison where the arrested workers were confined, the demonstration was shot at by troops and 15 workers were killed and 54 were injured. About 500 demonstrators were arrested. That same night J. V. Stalin wrote a manifesto on the shooting down of the demonstrators.
March 12th
In 1902, Stalin leads a workers' demonstration which he had organized in connection with the funeral of the victims of the shooting on March 9.
March 28th
In 1902, 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record).
April 5th
In 1902, Stalin is arrested at a meeting of the leading Party group in Batum.
April 6th
In 1902, Stalin is detained in the Batum jail. April 1902-April 19, 1903 While in Batum jail, J. V. Stalin establishes and maintains contact with the Batnm Social-Democratic organization, directs its activities, writes leaflets, and conducts political work among the prisoners.
April 18th
In 1902, Stalin in the Batum jail and was exiled to Siberia in 1903.
May 8th
In 1902, Martinique, West Indies: Mt. Pelee erupted and wiped out city of St. Pierre; 40,000 dead.
May 31st
In 1902, Britain and South Africa signed a peace treaty ending the Boer Wa r. Britain annexes Transvaal.
October 25th
In 1902, Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die.

In 1903, death of Hitler father Alois.

February 15th
In 1903, the first Teddy Bear was introduced in America. It was made by Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants.
February 16th
In 1903, -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record).
March
In 1903, The Caucasian Union of the RSDLP is formed at the First Congress of Caucasian Social-Democratic Labor Organizations. J. V. Stalin, then confined in Batum jail, is in his absence elected a member of the Caucasian Union Committee that was set up at the congress.
April 19th
In 1903, Stalin is transferred from the Batum jail to the Kutais jail, where he establishes contact with the other political prisoners and conducts among them propaganda on behalf of the Leninist-Iskra ideas.
October 9th
In 1903, 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC).
October 20th
In 1903, Stalin is retransferred to the Batnm jail, whence he is deported under escort to Eastern Siberia.
November 27th
In 1903, Stalin arrives at the village of Novaya Uda, Balagansk Uyezd, Irkutsk Gubernia, his place of exile.
December
In 1903, While in Siberia, J. V. Stalin receives a letter from V. I. Lenin.
December 30th
In 1903, a fire in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago killed 588 to 602 people; public outrage led to new theater safety codes across America.

January 5th
In 1904, Stalin escapes from his place of exile.
February 7th
In 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings.
February 8th
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began as Japan besieged Port Arthur in Manchuria.
February 9th
In 1904, Japan declares war on Russia.
February 24th
In 1904, Stalin arrives in Tiflis and directs the work of the Caucasian Union Committee of the RSDLP. Stalin drafts the program document entitled "Credo," dealing with the disagreements within the Party and with the organizational tasks of the Party.
June 10th
In 1904, Stalin arrives in Baku where, on the instructions of the Caucasian Union Committee, he dissolves the Menshevik committee and forms a new, Bolshevik committee.
June 15th
In 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River.
June - August
In 1904, Stalin makes a tour of the most important districts of Transcaucasia and debates with Mensheviks, Federalists, Anarchists and others.
In Kutais, J. V. Stalin forms a Bolshevik Imeretia-Mingrelia Committee.
August 7th
In 1904, Eden, Colo.: Train derailed on bridge during flash flood; 96 killed.
September 1st
In 1904, Proletarians Brdzola, No. 7, publishes J. V. Stalin's article "The Social-Democratic View of the National Question."
September 9th
In 1904, Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York. The boys in blue still have a horse division for use in Central Park and other areas not easily patrolled on foot.
September 29th
In 1904, the first monument in memory of the soldi ers and sailors of the Spanish American War was erected in Monroeville, Ohio.
September-October
In 1904, In connection with the disagreements within the Party, J V. Stalin, while in Kutais, writes letters to the Georgian Bolsheviks abroad, expounding Lenin's views on the combination of socialism with the working-class movement.
October 28th
In 1904, a new investigation method, fingerprinting, was first used by the St. Louis Pol ice Department.
November
In 1904, Stalin arrives in Baku and leads the campaign for the convocation of the Third Congress of the Party.
November 1st
In 1904, The Army War College in Washington, D.C. enrolls the first class.
December 13-31st
In 1904, Stalin leads the general strike of the Baku workers.

January 1st
In 1905, Proletarians Brdzola, No. 8, publishes J. V. Stalin's article "The Proletarian Class and the Proletarian Party."
January 2nd
In 1905, in the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians surrendered to the Japanese after the battle of Port A rthur. The Russians were trapped by the Japanese who had sunk merchant ships at the harbor entrance. The Japanese lost 58,000 men.
January 8th
In 1905, The manifesto is issued entitled "Workers of the Caucasus, It Is Time to Take Revenge!" written by J. V. Stalin in connection with the defeat tsarism had sustained in the Far East.
January 22nd
In 1905, thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial arm y troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as "Red Sunday" or "Bloody Sunday."
Beginning of February
In 1905, On the initiative of J. V. Stalin, the Caucasian Union Committee dissolves the Menshevik Tiflis Committee, which had announced its withdrawal from the Caucasian Union of the RSDLP, and forms a new, Bolshevik Tiflis Committee.
February 13th
In 1905, In connection with the Tatar-Armenian massacre in Baku which had been provoked by the police, J. V. Stalin writes the leaflet entitled "Long Live International Fraternity!"
In 1905, -29 degrees F (-34 d egrees C) Pond, Arkansas (state record).
In 1905, -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record).
In 1905, -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record).
February 15th
In 1905, In connection with the successful demonstration of many thousands of people held in Tiflis to protest against an attempt by the police to provoke massacres among the different nationalities in that city too, J. V. Stalin writes the leaflet entitled "To Citizens. Long Live the. Red Flag!"
April
In 1905, Stalin speaks at a big meeting in Batum in a debate with the Menshevik leaders N. Ramishvili, R. Arsenidze, and others.
May
In 1905, Stalin's pamphlet Briefly About the Disagreements in the Party is published.
June 8th
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt offered to act as a mediator in the Russo-Japanese War.
June 12th
In 1905, Stalin delivers a speech at the funeral of A. G. Tsulukidze in which he outlines a program of struggle to be waged by the workers and peasants against the autocracy, and subjects the tactics of the Mensheviks to devastating criticism.
July 7th
In 1905, 127 degrees F (53 degrees C), Parker Ariz (state record).
July 15th
In 1905, Proletarians Brdzola, No. 10, publishes J. V. Stalin's article "Armed Insurrection and Our Tactics."
July 18th
In 1905, In a letter to the Caucasian Union Committee, N. K. Krupskaya asks for copies of J. V. Stalin's pamphlet Briefly About the Disagreements in the Party and also for the regular delivery of Borba Proletariats.
July
In 1905, Stalin speaks before an audience of 2,000 in Chiaturi in debate with the Anarchists, Federalists and Socialist-Revolutionaries.
August 6th
In 1905, 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record).
August 15th
In 1905, Proletarians Brdzola, No. 11, publishes J. V. Stalin's articles "The Provisional Revolutionary Government and Social-Democracy" and "A Reply to Social-Democrat."
September 5th
In 1905, the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire, President Theodore Roosevelt having mediated the settlement.
October 15th
In 1905, Proletarians Brdzola, No. 12, publishes J. V. Stalin's articles "Reaction Is Growing" and "The Bourgeoisie Is Laying a Trap."
October 18th
In 1905, Stalin addresses a workers' meeting in the Nadzaladevi district of Tiflis on the tsar's Manifesto of October 17.
October 30th
In 1905, "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties.
October
In 1905, In connection with the October all-Russian political strike, J. V. Stalin writes the leaflets "Citizens!" and "To All the Workers!"
November 7th
In 1905, Russia Switches From Julian To Gregorian Calendar.
November 20th
In 1905, No. 1 of Kavkazsky Rabochy Listok appears with a leading article by J. V. Stalin entitled "Tiflis, November 20, 1905."
End of November
In 1905, Stalin directs the proceedings of the Fourth Bolshevik Conference of the Caucasian Union of the RSDLP.
December 11th
In 1905, 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record).
December 12-17th
In 1905, Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the First All-Russian Conference of Bolsheviks in Tammerfors as a delegate of the Caucasian Union of the RSDLP At this conference he became personally acquainted with V. I. Lenin.

Beginning of January
In 1906, Stalin's pamphlet Two Clashes is published.
January 31st
In 1906, Strongest instrumental ly recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter.
March 8th
In 1906, Stalin's article "The State Duma and the Tactics of Social-Democracy" appears in Gantiadi, No. 3.
March 10th
In 1906, France: explosion in coal mine in Courrieres killed 1,060.
March 17-29th
In 1906, Stalin's articles "The Agrarian Question" and "Concerning the Agrarian Question," appear in Nos. 5, 9, 10 and 14 of the newspaper Elva.
End of March
In 1906, Stalin is elected a delegate from the Tiflis organization to the Fourth ("Unity") Congress of the RSDLP
April 10-26th
In 1906, Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the Fourth ("Unity") Congress of the RSDLP in Stockholm at which, in opposition to the Mensheviks, he substantiates and defends the Bolshevik tactics in the revolution.
April 18th
In 1906, at 5:13 a.m. a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires. About 700 people died; 250,000 homeless, 7.9 to 8.3 on Richter Scale, it was "The Bi g One!".
April 19th
In 1906, SF Earthquake ends killing 452.
June 20th
In 1906, No. 1 of Akhali Tskhovreba, directed by J. V. Stalin, appears.
June 25th
In 1906, a love triangle came to a violent end atop New York's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
June 21-July 9
In 1906, Stalin's series of articles Anarchism or Socialism? appear in Nos. 2, 4, 7 and 16 of the Bolshevik newspaper Akhali Tskhovreba.
June-November
In 1906, Stalin directs the work of organizing the first trade unions in Tiflis (printers, shop assistants, and others).
July 13th
In 1906, Stalin's article "Marx and Engels on Insurrection" appears in Akhali Tskhovreba, No. 19.
July 14th
In 1906, Stalin's article "International Counter-revolution" appears in Akhali Tskhovreba, No. 20.
July-August
In 1906, Stalin's pamphlet The Present Situation and the Unity Congress of the Workers' Party is published.
August 16th
In 1906, -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000.
August 29th
In 1906, Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die.
September
In 1906, Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the Regional Congress of Caucasian Organizations of the RSDLP.
September 18th
In 1906, Hong Kong: typhoon with tsunami kil led an estimated 10,000 persons.
October 3rd
In 1906, the first conference on wireless telegraphy adopts SOS as a warning signal.
November 14th
In 1906, No. 1 of Akhali Droyeba, directed by J. V. Stalin, appears, containing his article "The Class Struggle."
December 4th
In 1906, Akhali Droyeba, No. 4, publishes J. V. Stalin's article "'Factory Legislation' and the Proletarian Struggle."
December 10th
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
December 11th
In 1906, Akhali Droyeba, No. 5, resumes publication of J. V. Stalin's scries of articles Anarchism or Socialism?
December 18, 1906-April 10, 1907
Publication of J. V. Stalin's series of articles Anarchism or Socialism? is continued in the Bolshevik newspapers Akhali Droyeba, Chveni Tskhovreba and Dro.

In 1907, death of Hitler mother Klara.

January 1st
In 1907, No. 1 of the newspaper Mnatobi (The Torch), directed by J. V. Stalin, appears.
No. 8 of the newspaper Akhali Droyeba (New Times) publishes the continuation of J. V. Stalin's work Anarchism or Socialism?
February 10th
In 1907, Stalin writes the preface to the Georgian edition of K. Kautsky's pamphlet The Driving Forces and Prospects of the Russian Revolution.
February 12th
In 1907, more than 300 people died when the steamer Larchmont collided with a schooner off New England's Block Island.
February 18th
In 1907, No. 1 of the newspaper Chveni Tskhovreba (Our Life), directed by J. V. Stalin, appears, containing his article "The Election Campaign in St. Petersburg and the Mensheviks."
February 21-28th
In 1907, Nos. 3, 5, 8 and 9 of Chveni Tskhovreba publish the continuation of J. V. Stalin's work Anarchism or Socialism?
March 11th
In 1907, No. 1 of the newspaper Dro (Time), directed by J. V. Stalin, appears.
March 13th
In 1907, No. 2 of Dro publishes J. V. Stalin's article "The Autocracy of the Cadets or the Sovereignty of the People?"
March 17th
In 1907, No. 6 of Dro publishes J. V. Stalin's leading article "The Proletariat Is Fighting, the Bourgeoisie Is Concluding an Alliance With the Government."
March 22nd
In 1907, No. 10 of Dro publishes J. V. Stalin's article "Comrade G. Telia. In Memoriam."
March 28 and 30th
In 1907, Dro publishes the decisions of the worker Bolsheviks in Tiflis to elect J. V. Stalin as a delegate to the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP
April 4-6 and 10th
In 1907, Nos. 21-23 and 26 of Dro publish the continuation of J.V. Stalin's work Anarchism or Socialism?
April 8th
In 1907, No. 25 of Dro publishes J. V. Stalin's loading article "The Advanced Proletariat and the Fifth Party Congress."
April 10th
In 1907, No. 26 of Dro publishes J. V. Stalin's article "Muddle. . ."
April 13th
In 1907, No. 29 of Dro publishes J. V. Stalin's article "Our Caucasian Clowns."
April 30-May 19th
In 1907, Stalin takes part in the proceedings of the Fifth ("London") Congress of the RSDLP as the delegate of the Tiflis organization.
June 1st
In 1907, -27 degrees F (-33 de grees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record).
June 5th
In 1907, On returning from the Fifth ("London") Congress of the RSDLP, J. V. Stalin visits Baku and Tiflis.
June 13th
In 1907, Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2 degrees F in Tamarack Calif.
First half of June
In 1907, On returning from the Fifth ("London") Congress of the RSDLP, J. V. Stalin visits Baku and Tiflis and delivers reports on the congress at meetings of the Social-Democratic organizations of Baku, Tiflis and a number of districts in Western Georgia. J. V. Stalin leads the struggle of the Bolsheviks against the Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries and others.
June 20th
In 1907, No. 1 of the underground Bolshevik newspaper Bakinsky Proletary (The Baku Proletarian), edited by J. V. Stalin, appears, containing the leading article written by him: "The Dispersion of the Duma and the Tasks of the Proletariat," and also his article "The London Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Notes of a Delegate)."
Summer-Autumn
In 1907, Stalin speaks at discussion meetings organized in the districts of Baku in which he exposes the policy of the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries.
Stalin directs the campaign to boycott the conference with the oil owners.
July 10th
In 1907, No. 2 of Bakinsky Proletary publishes the continuation of J. V. Stalin's article "The London Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Notes of a Delegate)."
End of July
In 1907, The Baku Bolsheviks, headed by J. V. Stalin, hold a Party conference of the oil districts, which declares in favour of organizing a general strike.
August 1st
In 1907, an Aeronautical Division was added to the Army Signals Corps, and this forerunner of the U.S. Air Force bought its first airplane. The aircraft was built b y the Wright brothers.
In 1907, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force was established by the army as an aeronautical division, the U.S. Signal Corps.
August 12th
In 1907, Appearance of No. 1 of the newspaper Gudok - the legal Bolshevik organ of the Baku oil industry workers' union, formed on the initiative of J. V. Stalin.
August 24th
In 1907, At a delegate meeting of five district Social-Democratic organizations and of the Moslem Social-Democratic group "Gummet,"J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the organizing commit-tee set up to convene a city Party conference.
September
In 1907, Stalin directs the campaign during the October Third State Duma elections.
The "Mandate" to the Social-Democratic deputies in the Third State Duma, written by J. V. Stalin, is adopted at a meeting of delegates of the workers' curia in Baku held on September 22.
September 29th
In 1907, Stalin delivers a speech at the grave of Khanlar Safaraliyev. a working man Bolshevik who was killed by the hired agents of the capitalists.
No. 4 of Gudok publishes J. V. Stalin's article "Boycott the Conference!"
October 25th
In 1907, At a Baku city conference of Bolsheviks, J. V. Stalin is elected a member of the Baku Committee of the RSDLP.
First half of November
In 1907, A meeting of the Baku Committee of the RSDLP, which J. V. Stalin attended, is held in the premises of the Sabunchi Hospital.
November 22nd
In 1907, The Baku Committee of the RSDLP, directed by J. V. Stalin, conducts a one-day strike to protest against the prosecution of the Social-Democratic group in the Second State Duma.
End of November
In 1907, Stalin arrives in Tiflis on Party business.
November 1907-March 1908
In 1907, Stalin directs the campaign for the participation of the Baku workers in a conference with the oil owners on the condition that the rights of the workers are guaranteed.
December 19th
In 1907, 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

In 1908, Hitler moved to Vienna to study art and architecture, but failed to be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts, earned a meager living painting postcards.

January 13th
In 1908, No. 14 of Gudok publishes J. V. Stalin's leading article "Before the Elections."
January - February
In 1908, The Baku Bolsheviks, directed by J. V. Stalin, organize a series of big strikes.
February 3rd
In 1908, No. 17 of Gudok publishes J. V. Stalin's leading article "More About a Conference With Guarantees."
February
In 1908, The Baku Committee of the RSDLP, directed by J. V. Stalin, organizes a "Self-Defense Staff" in connection with the growing frequency of assaults by Black Hundreds.
March 2nd
In 1908, No. 21 of Gudok publishes J. V. Stalin's article "What Do Our Recent Strikes Tell Us?"
March 4th
In 1908, one of the the deadliest U.S. school fires claims 174 at Lakeview Elementary in the Collinwood area of Cleveland, Ohio.
March 9th
In 1908, No. 22 of Gudok publishes J. V. Stalin's leading article "The Change in the Oil Owners' Tactics."
March 16th
In 1908, No. 23 of Gudok publishes J.V. Stalin's leading article "We Must Prepare!"
March 25th
In 1908, Stalin, under the alias Gaioz Nizharadze, is arrested and confined in the Bailov prison in Baku.
March 25-November 9th
In 1908, While in prison J. V. Stalin establishes and maintains contact with the Baku Bolshevik organization, directs the Baku Committee of the RSDLP and writes .articles for the Bakinsky Proletary and Gudok. He also conducts propaganda among the political prisoners, holds debates with the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks and organizes the study of Marxist literature by the political prisoners.
March 30th
In 1908, No. 25 of Gudok publishes J.V. Stalin 's leading article "Economic Terrorism and the Labor Movement."
April 21-May 18th
In 1908, Nos. 28, 30 and 32 of Gudok publish J.V. Stalin's article "The Oil Owners on Economic Terrorism."
April 12th
In 1908, Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts.
May 1st
In 1908, World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama.
May 23rd
In 1908, a dirigible explodes over S.F. Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
June 30th
In 1908, Possibly the most powerful, natural explosion in recorded history occurred in Central Siberia. The spectacular explosion caused seismic shock, and a firestorm followed by blac k rain and an illumination that, it is said, could be seen for hundreds of miles.
July 20th
In 1908, No. 5 of Bakinsky Proletary publishes J. V. Stalin's articles "Flunkey 'Socialists'" and "Hypocritical Zubatovites."
The same issue of the newspaper publishes as a supplement J. V. Stalin's article "The Conference and the Workers."
November 9th
In 1908, Stalin is deported to the Vologda Gubernia for two years to remain under open police surveillance.
December 28th
In 1908, Messina, Sicily: about 85,000 killed and city totally destroyed.

January
In 1909, Stalin arrives in Vologda under escort and is confined in the Vologda prison.
January 27th
In 1909, Stalin's place of exile is decided: Solvychegodsk, Vologda Gubernia.
January 28th
In 1909, the United States ended direct control over Cuba.
February 8th
In 1909, On the way to his place of exile under escort J. V. Stalin falls sick with relapsing fever and is taken from the Vyatka prison to the Vyatka Gubernia Zemstvo Hospital.
February 20th
In 1909, Stalin is transferred from the hospital to the Vyatka prison.
February 27th
In 1909, Stalin arrives in Solvychegodsk.
June 24th
In 1909, Stalin escapes from Solvychegodsk.
Beginning of July
In 1909, While on his way J. V. Stalin stays several days in St. Petersburg.
First half of July
In 1909, Stalin secretly arrives in Baku and directs the work of restoring and consolidating the Bolshevik organizations in Baku and Transcaucasia.
August 1st
In 1909, After a year's suspension, Bakinsky Proletary resumes publication with No. 6, which contains J. V. Stalin's leading article "The Party Crisis and Our Tasks."
August 2nd
In 1909, Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers.
In 1909, The Baku Committee of the RSDLP, directed by J. V. Stalin, adopts a resolution on the state of affairs on the editorial board of Proletary supporting "the stand taken by the majority of the editorial board represented by Comrade Lenin."
August 27th
In 1909, No. 7 of Bakinsky Proletary publishes the conclusion of J. V. Stalin's article "The Party Crisis and Our Tasks," and also the article "The Forthcoming General Strike."
First half of September
In 1909, Stalin leaves Baku for Tiflis, where he organizes and directs the struggle of the Tiflis Bolshevik organization against the Menshevik Liquidators.
September 10th
In 1909, thru Sept . 21, hurricane in Louisiana and Mississippi: 350 deaths.
End of September
In 1909, Stalin takes measures to re-establish the underground printing plant of the Baku Committee,
October 19-beginning of November
In 1909, Stalin arrives in Tiflis and makes preparations for the convocation of the Tiflis City Party Conference and for the publication of the Bolshevik newspaper Tiflissky Proletary.
November 11th
In 1909, work begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. It is selected because "it is defensible against any potential threat from Japan." Sure.
November 12th
In 1909, Stalin returns to Baku from Tiflis.
November 13th
In 1909, 250 miners were killed in a fire and explosion at the St. Paul Mine at Cherry, Ill.
November 18th
In 1909, US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya.
November-December
In 1909, Stalin writes "Letters From the Caucasus" for the Central Organ of the Party.
December 13th
In 1909, The Baku Committee of the RSDLP issues a leaflet written by J. V. Stalin, "The December Strike and the December Agreement" (on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Baku strike of 1904).

Beginning with 1910
In 1910, Stalin is a representative of the Central Committee of the Party ("agent of the C.C.").
January 5th
In 1910, No. 1 of the newspaper Tiflissky Proletary, founded with the direct participation of J.V. Stalin, appears.
January 22nd
In 1910, The Baku Committee of the RSDLP adopts a resolution drafted by J. V. Stalin urging the necessity of convening a general Party conference, of transferring the practical center for directing the activities of the Party to Russia and of publishing an all-Russian leading newspaper.
March 1st
In 1910, 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range; 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history.
March 23rd
In 1910, Stalin is arrested under the alias Zakhar Grigoryan Melikyants.
Stalin's leaflet "August Bebel, Leader of the German Workers, " appears.
March 26th
In 1910, Stalin is confined in the Bailov Prison in Baku.
May 4th
In 1910, Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy.
July 12th
In 1910, Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became Britain's first aviation victim when he crashed his plane near Bournemouth.
August 20th
In 1910, The first U.S. pilot to fire a gun from an airplane is J. E. Fickel of Sheepshead Bay, New Y ork.
September 7th
In 1910, While in prison J. V. Stalin receives the order of the Viceroy of the Caucasus dated August 27 prohibiting him from residing in the Caucasus for five years.
September 23rd
In 1910, Stalin is taken under escort to Solvychegodsk.
October 29th
In 1910, Stalin arrives in Solvychegodsk.
November 1910-June 1911
In 1910, Stalin establishes contact with V. I. Lenin. He organizes meetings of exiles at which papers are read and current political questions are discussed.
November 20th
In 1910, revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero.
December 31st
In 1910, Stalin writes a letter to the Central Committee of the Party ("A Letter to the Central Committee of the Party from Exile in Solvychegodsk").

January 26th
In 1911, the Richard Strauss opera "Der Rosenkavalier" premiered in Dresden, Germany.
February 6th
In 1911, Great fire in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey.
February 8th
In 1911, US helps to overthrow Miguel Dfvila/president of Honduras.
March 7th
In 1911, the United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.
March 25th
In 1911, 146 immigrant workers were killed when a fire broke out at the Triangle Sh irtwaist Company in New York; the disaster stirred public outrage and spurred workplace safety reform.
March-June
In 1911, The police make repeated searches in J. V. Stalin's lodgings (at the house of M. P. Kuzakova) in Solvychegodsk.
May 19th
In 1911, the first person to commit a crime and be convicted through the use of fingerprints turned out to be Caesar Cella. He had been "thumbed" in New York City.
May 25th
In 1911, Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz.
June 1st
In 1911, At a conference of members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, held in Paris, J. V. Stalin is appointed in his absence an alternate member of the Organizing Committee for convening the Party conference.
June 23-26th
In 1911, Stalin in Solvychegodsk is kept under close arrest for three days for organizing a meeting of exiled Social-Democrats.
June 27th
In 1911, Stalin is released from open police surveillance in view of the expiration of his period of exile. Being prohibited from residing in the Caucasus, in the capitals and industrial centres, he chooses Vologda as his place of residence as it is on the way to St. Petersburg.
July 6th
In 1911, Stalin, furnished with a transit permit, leaves Solvychegodsk for Vologda.
July 10th
In 1911, 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record).
July 14th
In 1911, 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines.
July 15th
In 1911, 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines.
July 16th
In 1911 Stalin arrives in Vologda.
July-September
In 1911, In Vologda J. V. Stalin is kept under secret police surveillance.
July
In 1911, Stalin writes a letter to the editorial board of Rabochaya Gazeta (Workers' Newspaper), directed by Lenin, informing it of his intention to work in St. Petersburg or in Moscow.
July 20th
In 1911, Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany.
August 23rd
In 1911, British premier Asquith holds secret m eeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany.
August 28th
In 1911, 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record).
September 6th
In 1911, Stalin secretly leaves Vologda for St. Petersburg.
September 7th
In 1911, Stalin arrives in St. Petersburg and registers with the passport of P. A. Chizhikov.
September 7-9th
In 1911, Stalin meets the Bolsheviks S. Todria and S. Alliluyev and establishes contact with the St. Petersburg Party organization.
September 9th
In 1911, Stalin is arrested and confined in the St. Petersburg House of Preliminary Detention.
September 25th
In 1911, Italy declares war on Turkey.
October 10th
In 1911, revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. Seventy years later, Aaron Spelling installed a Dynasty at ABC.
October 23rd
In 1911, the first wartime reconnaissance flight is made by the Ital ian Army Aviation Corps in Libya.
November 1st
In 1911, the Italian Air Corps conduct history's first airborne bombing raid.
November 5th
In 1911, Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica.
December 14th
In 1911, Stalin is deported to Vologda for three years, to remain under open police surveillance.
December 25th
In 1911, Stalin arrives in Vologda.

Between January 5(18) and 17(30)
In 1912, At the Sixth ("Prague'') General Party Conference, J. V. Stalin is in his absence elected   member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party.
The conference sets up a practical center known as the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee to direct revolutionary activities in Russia and places J. V. Stalin in charge of this center.
January 9th
In 1912, US marines invade Honduras.
January 13th
In 1912, -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Oakland, Maryland (state record).
February 14th
In 1912, first US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct.
Middle of February
In 1912, On the instructions of V.I Lenin, G. K. Ordjonikidze, a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee, goes to see J. V. Stalin in Vologda to inform him of the decisions of the Prague Conference.
February 29th
In 1912, Stalin escapes from exile in Vologda.
Beginning of March
In 1912, Stalin writes the leaflet "For the Party!" which is published in the name of the Central Committee of the RSDLP and is widely distributed in Russia.
March 5th
In 1912, the Italians are the first to use dirigibles for military purposes (reconnaissance.).
First half of March
In 1912, Stalin visits Baku and Tiflis to organize the work of the Transcaucasian Bolshevik organizations in carrying out the decisions of the Prague Conference. He writes Circular Letter No. 1 of the Central Committee of the RSDLP to the Party organizations announcing the definite formation of the Central Committee.
March 29th
In 1912, Stalin conducts a conference of the Party workers of the Bolshevik district organizations in Baku. The conference endorses the decisions of the Prague Conference.
March 30th
In 1912, Stalin writes a report on the conference in Baku for the Sotsial-Demokrat.
April 1st
In 1912, the Royal Flying Corps Of England was organized.
In 1912, Stalin leaves Baku for St. Petersburg.
Beginning of April
In 1912, On the way to St. Petersburg J. V. Stalin stops in Moscow and meets G. K. Ordjonikidze.
J. V. Stalin writes the leaflet "Long Live the First of May!"
J. V. Stalin sends to Tiflis a copy of the resolution adopted by a group of Moscow Party workers welcoming the decisions of the Prague Conference and the newly-formed Central Committee.
On behalf of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, J. V. Stalin writes to Clara Zetkin requesting her to transfer the Party funds held by her to the Central Committee for the purpose of conducting the Fourth State Duma election campaign.
April 8th
In 1912, Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200.In 1945, Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands.
April 10th
In 1912, the luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic set sail from Southhampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage. On the night of April 14, the ship struck an iceberg in t he North Atlantic and sank almost three hours later. About 1,500 people perished in the disaster. In 1997, the movie "Titantic" was released based on this event and became the most successful movie ever (as of my prediction as I was editing this 2-21-98 )
In 1912, Stalin secretly arrives in St. Petersburg.
April 10-22nd
In 1912, Stalin edits the Bolshevik workers' newspaper Zvezda in which the following articles of his are published: "A New Period" (leading article), "Life Triumphs!", "They Are Working Well....", "The Ice Has Broken!..." (leading article), "'How They Are Preparing for the Elections," "Deductions" (leading article), and others.
Middle of April
In 1912, Stalin makes arrangements with the members of the Social-Democratic group in the Third. State Duma N. G. Poletayev and I. P. Pokrovsky, as well as with the Bolshevik journalists M. S. Olminsky and N. N. Baturin, for the publication of the newspaper Pravda and for the drafting of its programme, and together with them makes up the first number of that newspaper.
April 14th
In 1912, the supposedly unsinkable British liner, the largest passenger liner afloat, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage and began sinking. Many onboard refused to believe the ship was going down. Rescue ships saved 706 survivors, but 1,517 sunk with the ship at 2:20 the following morning. (****)
April 15th
In 1912, at 2:27 a.m., the British luxury liner RMS Titanic, the largest passenger lin er afloat, sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 of the more than 2,200 people aboard died in the disaster.
April 22nd
In 1912, No. 1 of the workers' daily newspaper Pravda appears containing J.V. Stalin 's article "Our Aims."
Stalin is arrested and confined in the preliminary detention prison in St. Petersburg.
April 29th
In 1912, 10 8 degrees F (42 degrees C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record).
June 7th
In 1912, US army tests first machine gun mounted on a plane.
July 2nd
In 1912, Stalin is deported under escort from St. Petersburg to the Narym territory, to be kept under open police surveillance for three years.
July 16th
In 1912, Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske.
July 18th
In 1912, Stalin, accompanied by a prison warder, leaves Tomsk on the steamer Kolpashevets for his place of exile in Narym.
August 14th
In 1912, 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925.
September 1st
In 1912, Stalin escapes from exile in Narym.
September 12th
In 1912, Stalin arrives in St. Petersburg
September-October
In 1912, Stalin directs the Fourth State Duma election campaign and organizes the struggle against the Menshevik Liquidators.
J. V. Stalin edits Pravda.
October 4th
In 1912, A meeting of the Executive Commission of the St. Petersburg Committee is held under J. V. Stalin's direction at which a decision is adopted to call a one-day strike in protest against the annulment of the election of voters' delegates at the biggest plants in St. Petersburg (Putilov's and others).
Beginning of October
In 1912, Stalin conducts a secret Party conference at which the tactics to be adopted in the struggle against the Liquidators is discussed and the workers' candidate for the Fourth State Duma is nominated.
Stalin writes "Mandate of the St. Petersburg Workers to Their Labor Deputy."
Middle of October
In 1912, Stalin sends "Mandate of the St. Petersburg Workers" to V. I. Lenin on the editorial board of Sotsial-Demokrat, in which paper it was published in the issue No. 28-29 of November 5(18), 1912.
October 17th
In 1912, The "Mandate" written by J. V. Stalin is adopted at the assembly of voters' delegates of the workers' curia in the St. Petersburg Gubernia.
October 18th
In 1912, Beginning of the first Balkan War.
October 19th
In 1912, No. 147 of Pravda publishes the leading article by J. V. Stalin "The Will of the Voters' Delegates."
October 21 (November 3)
In 1912, On the instructions of V. I. Lenin, N. K. Krupskaya writes to Pravda and the members of the Social-Democratic group in. the Duma stating that it is extremely important for J. V. Stalin to visit Krakow.
October 24th
In 1912, No. 151 of Pravda publishes J. V. Stalin's article "The Results of the Elections in the Workers' Curia of St. Petersburg."
October 25th
In 1912, No. 152 of Pravda publishes J. V. Stalin's article "Today Is Election Day."
End of October
In 1912, Stalin visits Moscow for a short period and establishes contact with the newly-elected working men Bolshevik deputies of the Fourth State Duma.
October 30th
In 1912, Stalin returns to St. Petersburg from Moscow.
November 10th
In 1912, Stalin secretly arrives in Krakow to visit V. I. Lenin.
November 11(24)th
In 1912, V. I. Lenin sends the "Mandate" he had received from J. V. Stalin to Pravda with instructions to publish it "in a prominent place in large type."
First half of November
In 1912, Stalin takes part in a meeting of the members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP in Krakow.
End of November-beginning of December
In 1912, Returning to St. Petersburg from Krakow, J. V. Stalin directs the activities of the Social Democratic group in the Fourth State Duma.
November 23 (December 6)th
In 1912, V. I. Lenin writes to J. V. Stalin on preparations for th¥ anniversary of January 9 and on the need for leaflets to be published in connection with it.
November 25th
In 1912, Socialist International rejects that world war is coming.
First half of December
In 1912, On the instructions of V. I. Lenin, N. K. Krupskaya writes to J. V. Stalin urging him to come to Krakow for a meeting of the members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP and the six Bolshevik deputies in the Fourth Duma.
End of December
In 1912, Stalin secretly leaves for Krakow.
December 28, 1912 (January 10, 1913) - January 1(14), 1913
In 1912, Stalin takes part in the "February" conference of the Central Committee of the RSDLP with Party workers and the Bolshevik members of the Social-Democratic group in the Duma, held under the direction of V. I. Lenin. At this conference V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin propose measures for improving the work of the editorial board of Pravda.
End of December 1912 - beginning of January 1913
In 1912, The leaflet written by J. V. Stalin "To All the. Working Men and Working Women of Russia!" 1913 is issued.