1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)

1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his first store in Utica, New York.

1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati

1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)

1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union

1889 U.S. President Grover Cleveland signs a bill to admit North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington (state) to the Union.

1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London)

1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms

1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC

1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Hawaii became a US territory

1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water

1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles CA

1907 Cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London

1909 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia

1912 J Vedrines makes first airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph

1913 Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on it's first campus)

1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war

1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia

1920 The first artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville CA)

1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin

1923 First successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA)

1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins

1924 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first U.S. president to deliver a radio address from the White House.

1928 First solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)

1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted

1933 Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50

1934 It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House

1936 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins

1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain

1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island

1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578

1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal

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