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

1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay

1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA

1904 Control of Panama Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million

1905 Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago

1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds

1909 At Baddeck, Nova Scotia J. A. D. McCurdy flies the Bell designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 10 metres for nearly one kilometre across Baddeck Bay; first airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian; first powered flight in British Empire.

1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet

1910 First radio contest held (Philadelphia)

1910 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London

1914 In British Columbia a Fraser River rockslide nearly wipes out the area's salmon fishing industry, much later we do the same thing

1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin

1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law

1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin

1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun

1917 February revolution begins in Russia

1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy

1921 First US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA

1923 German Republic day with laws against worker

1923 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%

1927 The Federal Radio Commission, now known as the Federal Communications Commission, is established in Washington, DC.

1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers

1934 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium

1936 First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY

1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title

1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion

1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island

1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released

1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood CA

1943 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh

1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia

1945 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London

1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar

1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr

1945 US Marines raise the American flag after taking Mount Suribachi on the island Iwo Jima, during WWII.

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