1902 Charles F. Tiffany, founder of the jewelry company that bears his name, dies.

1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws

1908 US postage stamps in coils issued

1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York NY

1915 Germany begins a blockade of England

1921 British troops occupy Dublin

1923 Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages

1924 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1924 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

1924 US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal

1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations

1930 Pluto, the ninth planet of our solar system, is discovered.

1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent

1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title

1939 The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.

1942 Japanese troop land on Bali

1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean General/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart

1943 First edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"

1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis

1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested

1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA

1951 Nepál becomes a constitutional monarchy

1952 4th Emmy Awards Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca win

1953 Premiere of first 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York NY)

1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance

1960 U.S. Vice President Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, CA.

1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater

1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war

1964 Papandreou government takes power in Greece

1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia

1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1968 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

1968 10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France

1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd

1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland

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