1920 Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, dies.

1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran

1922 Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland

1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath

1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US

1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge

1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China

1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition

1935 Karoline Mikkelson is first woman on Antarctica

1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany

1941 First transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland

1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands

1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers

1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia

1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México)

1943 Phil Wrigley &B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League

1944 Batman &Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

1944 HMS WARWICK, sunk off Trevose Head, north Cornwall, south west England by 1 torpedo from German U-413.

1944 U.S. warplanes begin bombing German manufacturing plants during WWII.

1944 US takes Eniwetok Island

1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA

1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India

1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns

1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York NY

1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia

1962 John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.

1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"

1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data

1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR

1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth

1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M

1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda

1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio &TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes

1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono

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