1895 Georgetown became part of Washington DC

1896 Oscar Wildes "Salomé," premieres in Paris

1897 White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC

1898 Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia

1899 -15ºF (-26ºC), Washington DC (district record)

1899 -61ºF (-52ºC), Montana (record low temperature)

1902 Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels

1907 De Master's Dutch government resigns

1907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die

1908 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England

1908 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland

1916 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert

1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control

1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany

1922 "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1

1922 US intervention army leaves Honduras

1926 Leslie Nielsen actor, comedian, born on this day at Regina Saskatchewan

1926 Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand

1927 US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

1927 US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

1928 2nd Winter Olympics games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland

1929 The independence and sovereignty of Vatican City is recognized by Italy, with the signing of the Lateran Treaty.

1932 73ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February

1935 -11ºF (-24ºC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)

1935 First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York Why?

1936 Burt Reynolds Emmy Award-winning actor was born

1936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay

1937 General Motors formally recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union, ending a sit-down strike against the auto maker.

1941 First Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)

1941 Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli

1941 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments

1942 "Archie" comic book debuts

1942 In Montreal anti-conscription riot breaks out after 10,000 people rally at the Marché St-Jacques

1942 On this day, the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, escape from the French port of Brest and make a mad dash up the English Channel to safety in German waters. Very embarrassing for the Royal Navy

1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

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