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

1949 House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949

1950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS

1951 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing

1951 San Francisco City Hall dome fire

1952 Ian Craig makes New South Wales cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (New South Wales record)

1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty

1959 Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after overthrowing Batista.

1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip

1961 China uses it's first nuclear reactor

1961 First all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island VA

1961 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched

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