1918 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar

1919 United Parcel Service forms

1920 The League of Women Voters is established in Chicago.

1921 Canadian 5¢ nickel coin is authorized

1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," New York

1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson

1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed

1927 Conn Smythe takes over the Toronto St. Patricks team and renames them the Maple Leafs

1929 Seven rivals of mobster Al Capone are murdered in a Chicago garage, now remembered as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."

1931 Bradman scores 152 Australia vs West Indies, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives

1931 Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls

1932 South Africa all out for 36 in first innings vs Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)

1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago

1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

1936 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee

1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind

1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed

1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel

1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya

1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra

1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens

1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia

1943 Soviets recapture Rostov

1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java

1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden

1945 Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru join the United Nations.

1946 The Bank of England goes public.

1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses

1949 First session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem

1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg

1950 USSR & China sign peace treaty

1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title

1952 6th Winter Olympics games opens in Oslo, Norway

1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"

1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow

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