1917 The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Germany, due to Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub

1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service

1919 League of Nations first meeting (Paris)

1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)

1924 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

1924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the U.S., dies in Washington, D.C. at age 68.

1927 Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal

1929 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam

1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms

1930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

1933 German minister Göring bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwärts

1933 Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin

1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage &Hour law, sets minimum wages &maximum hours

1942 Japanese air raid on Java

1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin

1945 Walt Disney's "The 3 Caballeros" released

1947 -81ºF (-63ºC), Snag Yukon (North American record)

1947 Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket

1948 Dick Button becomes first world figure skating champion from US

1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges

1951 "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV

1951 Dick Button win US skating title for 6th time

1956 Toni Sailor becomes first Olympics skier to sweep the 3 alpine events

1958 Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart &peaks at #3

1959 American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65

1959 Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson die in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

1961 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))

1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs

1964 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold

1964 Black &Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools

1965 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams

1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)

1966 Soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

1966 The first operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)

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