Democratic (socialist/proto-fascist) President Wilson issues an ultimatum to Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Ambassador from the Empire of Germany, threatening to break diplomatic relations if unrestricted submarine warfare continues against allied trans-Atlantic shipping.

       [restored 6/11/2022]

Subsequent Events:

1/31/1917                    2/3/1917

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 288.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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