1918 President Woodrow Wilson sails in USS George Washington for Paris Peace Conference.
1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service
1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem
1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class
1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 First US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for first time in WW II
1943 Aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-16) and USS Independence (CVL-22) attack Kwajalein Atoll, sinking four Japanese ships and damaging five others, while only three U.S. ships suffered damage.
1944 USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II.
1945 Senate approves US participation in UN
1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
1949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Phillippines), kills 500
1952 Killer fogs begin in London England. "Smog" becomes a word
1956 Paul Hornung wins the Heisman Trophy
1957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
1957 First edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
1961 Museum of Modern Art hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 Smallest New York Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
1961 Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN
1964 Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
1965 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
1965 Launch of Gemini 7 piloted by CDR James A. Lovell, USN. This flight consisted of 206 orbits at an altitude of 327 km and lasted 13 days and 18 hours. Recovery by HS-11 helicopters from USS Wasp (CVS-18)
