1904 Outbreak of hostilities in Russo-Japanese war

1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti &adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people

1909 France &Germany sign treaty about Morocco

1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated &chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago)

1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras

1912 First eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville FL

1914 General Zamon becomes President of Haiti

1915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles CA

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374

1918 "Stars &Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, first published

1918 HMS Boxer, a British 'A' Class destroyer, of around 300 tons, built by Thorneycroft at Chiswick, London, and completed in 1894, sunk in the English Channel after a collision with the SS St.Patrick in bad weather.

1920 Lana (Julia Jean) Turner actress and WWII poster girl was born

1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage

1922 Radio arrives in the White House

1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson NM kills 120

1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily

1924 The first coast-to-coast radio hookup General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

1924 The gas chamber at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City is used for the first time.

1925 Kaufman &Berlin's "coconuts," premieres in New York NY

1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership

1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed

1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed

1928 Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV

1928 The first transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale NY

1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1

1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000

1931 James Dean actor and singer was born

1933 -23ºF (-31ºC), Seminole TX (state record)

1933 First flight of all-metal Boeing 247

1934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington DC

1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government

1936 Larry Vernethe singer of "Please Mr. Custer, I don't wanta go" I love that song

1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party

1940 Germans set up the Lodz ghetto. 31,721 rooms contain more than 160,000 Jews by May 1.

1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore

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