1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR

1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch

1930 Arnold Schönbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt

1932 Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th

1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions

1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe

1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own

1935 First "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol

1935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy

1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland

1941 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

1941 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner

1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier

1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands)

1944 First Japanese territory invaded at Kwajalein.

1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy

1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie

1946 Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie is selected as the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president

1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists

1947 Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad

1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established

1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates

1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed

1949 200" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope first used

1949 RCA releases first single record ever (45 rpm)

1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland

1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes

1951 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record)

1951 Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed

1951 First telecast of atomic explosion

1951 The first X-ray moving picture process demonstrated

1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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