1912 Robert Cromie publishes first issue of the Vancouver Sun, to "consistently advocate the principles of Liberalism"

1912 The Republic of China is formed.

1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

1915 Lorne Greene broadcaster, actor, born on this day at Ottawa Ontario

1917 Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet

1920 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike

1921 Soviet troops invade the republic of Georgia

1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies

1924 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.

1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes first presidential radio speech

1925 Estonia forbids Communist Party

1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai

1929 Actress Lilly Langtree dies.

1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees

1933 German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis

1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists &royalists

1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden

1938 German troops entered Austria

1940 The Adventures of Superman serial premieres on the Mutual radio network, featuring Bud Collyer in the title role.

1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"

1942 Three German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany much to the frustration of the Royal Navy

1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa

1945 San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference

1947 Daytime fireball &meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia

1947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands

1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances

1949 Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.

1949 Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.

1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio

1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem

1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees

1953 USSR breaks relations with Israel

1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 &stays #1 for 10 weeks

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