1909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary

1909 Subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY)

1913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico

1914 First airplane flight from to Los Angeles from San Francisco

1916 Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia

1917 First synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid

1918 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)

1923 Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory

1923 The burial vault of King Tutankhamen's tomb is opened in Egypt.

1923 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1923 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France

1927 Noël Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London

1927 US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey

1931 Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes President of Finland

1932 Patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree

1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists

1936 4th Winter Olympics games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1936 Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections

1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers

1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized

1940 RCAF's No. 110 Army Cooperation Squadron sails for Britain; first of 48 squadrons to go overseas

1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway

1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery

1942 Massacre of 22 members of the Australian Army Nursing Service and other survivors of the SS Vyner Brooke, on Banka Island, Straits of Sumatra

1943 -32º F (-36º C), Falls Village CT (state record)

1943 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia

1943 Red army conquers Kharkov

1943 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22

1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa

1945 American troops begin their reoccupation of the Philippine island of Corregidor during WWII.

1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany

1946 First commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport CT

1947 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres

1948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for first time

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