1931 Jackie Mitchell became first female in professional baseball

1932 Ford introduced its new offering the high-performance Ford V-8, the first Ford with an 8-cylinder engine.

1932 The RCMP absorbs provincial police forces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Alberta.

1933 In the German state, the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses begins

1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses

1935 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY

1935 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta

1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India

1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1417 Walinskia ൙ Tamblyn

1937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1426 Riviera

1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY

1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war

1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)

1942 Department of Munitions & Supply puts gasoline on coupon rationing; national speed limit of 64 km an hour proclaimed.

1942 First Naval Air Transportation Service (NATS) squadron for Pacific operations commissioned

1945 Over 1200 Navy ships and Army troops begin invasion of Okinawa

1945 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WW II

1946 400,000 US mine workers strike

1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii

1947 Greece's King George II died.

1948 Helicopter Utility Squadron, HU-1, the first of its type in the U.S. Navy, was established at NAS\ Lakehurst

1949 Newfoundland becomes the tenth province of Canada and the Newfoundland Railway becomes part of the Canadian National system. This narrow gauge system had been operated by the island government since 1923.

1950 Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe &Gamow

1954 Army helicopter battalion formed, Fort Bragg, NC

1954 US Air Force Academy established

1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1852 Carpenter

1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee

1960 RCA (TV &Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched

1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma

1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye

1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike

1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" &"The Doctors" premier on TV

1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years

1966 The command, US Naval Forces Vietnam established

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