1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp

1904 American occupation of Cuba ends

1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam

1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company

1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration

1917 Mexico adopts it's constitution. The country now celebrates Constitution Day on February 5th to commemorate the event.

1918 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson

1918 Separation of church &state begins in USSR

1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium

1922 Reader's Digest magazine first published

1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

1923 Mass arrests of socialists &communists in Italy

1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released &bombed

1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco

1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins

1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes first US women to earn a glider pilot license

1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary

1936 National Wildlife Federation forms

1937 First Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released

1937 U.S. president Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500 meter (41.8 seconds)

1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

1940 Glenn Miller &his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"

1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands

1942 "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn &Tracy opens at Radio City

1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett &Gene Moore

1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt

1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, first transmission

1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin

1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69.6 kph (440 yards/20.8 seconds)

1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta

1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla

1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland

1948 "The Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time

1948 Dick Button becomes first US figure skating Olympics champion

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