1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun

1917 Laconia, a Cunard ship. Sunk by torpedo attack from German U-boat U50 on the return journey from the USA to Liverpool while about 150 miles north west of the Fastnet Rock. There was a crew of 217 and she was carrying 75 passengers. 12 people were killed, 6 crew and 6 passengers.

1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

1919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon)

1920 The NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers Party - publishes a 25-point program in Munich. The party has 60 members. Hitler begins making speeches, drawing thousands; he builds the Nazi Party and the S.A. Stormtroopers, a private army.

1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed

1921 Jack Haley (Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz) marries Florence McFadden.

1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark

1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska

1925 US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

1925 US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain

1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords

1927 Gdansk &Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor

1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

1933 USS Ranger the first genuine aircraft carrier christened

1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister

1939 First Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden

1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam

1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front

1944 US first Army completes invasion plan

1945 Sgt. Aubrey Cosens (Queen's Own Rifles of Canada) awarded the Victoria Cross at the Goch-Calear Road, Germany

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo

1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier

1951 The first Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina)

1952 6th Winter Olympics games close at Oslo, Norway

1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier

1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference

1957 Buddy Holly &the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

1962 India Congress Party wins elections

1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands

1963 Beatles release their first single in US "Please Please Me"

1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns

1964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight title

1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad

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