World War I

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain.

On October 22, 1914, the Emergency Revenue Act was passed, which called for the creation of Wine Revenue Stamps.

On September 25, 1920, the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) was officially established at a national social welfare organization.

On September 22, 1989, legendary composer Irving Berlin died in New York City at the age of 101.

On September 21, 1866, the 9th and 10th Cavalry units and the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st Infantry units (later consolidated as the 24th and 25th Infantry) were formed.  The units were comprised entirely of black soldiers – the first to serve in a peacetime army.  They would come to be known as Buffalo Soldiers.

On September 1, 1866, the first US Beer stamps were issued.

On August 27, 1918, US and Mexican forces engaged in the Battle of Ambos Nogales, amid the tensions of the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Border War.

Aviator and inventor Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871, in Dayton, Ohio.

On August 13, 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps Reserve.