Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of the Empire of Germany, announces to Parliament that Kaiser Wilhelm II has decided to resume unrestricted submarine warfare against allied trans-Atlantic shipping.

       [restored 6/11/2022]

Subsequent Events:

2/3/1917                    3/1/1917

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 290.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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