1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established

1919 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown

1920 First flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1½ months)

1924 The first Winter Olympics games close at Chamonix France

1926 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany

1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria

1932 Lake Placid, NY hosts the first Winter Olympics. Lake Placid would reprise this role in 1980.

1933 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts

1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press

1936 The first radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)

1938 "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway

1938 Hitler seizes control of German army &puts Nazi in key posts

1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort

1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya

1941 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin

1941 The United Service Organizations (USO) is created, at the request of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1942 Clinton Pierce becomes first US General wounded in action in WWII

1944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein

1945 FDR, Churchill &Stalin meet at Yalta

1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia

1951 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer

1951 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button

1957 Electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)

1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore

1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure

1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game

1962 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles

1962 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt

1964 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax

1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City OK

1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133

1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby

1967 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3

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