1930 England out for 849 vs West Indies Kingston, Sandham out for 325

1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions

1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election

1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die

1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland

1938 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2714 Matti

1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory

1941 In San Francisco, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses

1941 In SF, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses

1942 HMS CORNWALL And HMS DORSETSHIRE sunk in the Indian Ocean south west of Ceylon by Japanese carrier divebombers, 190 men lost from 'Cornwall', 234 from 'Dorsetshire'

1942 HMS TENEDOS sunk in harbour at Colombo, Ceylon - by Japanese carrier bombers.

1943 Allies bomb Mortsel

1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days

1943 The third and last "Macedonian transport" reaches the Treblinka "resettlement"; all are gassed.

1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse

1945 Almelo Netherlands freed

1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki

1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony

1946 USS Missouri arrives in Turkey to return the body of Turkish ambassador to the U.S. and to show U.S. support and willingness to defend Turkey.

1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting

1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham IL)

1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins

1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death

1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title

1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"

1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him

1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284

1959 Art Wall wins golf's Masters

1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Jack Paar Show"

1961 Dutch Governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council

1962 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns", premieres in NYC

1962 Manager J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m

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