1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500

1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)

1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated

1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - first (German) flame-thrower

1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930

1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia

1917 First Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)

1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604

1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine

1919 Grand Canyon National Park is established.

1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)

1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins

1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government

1925 Oregon adopts its state flag.

1929 Grand Teton National Park is established.

1930 The first red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)

1930 West Indies make first Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England

1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field

1933 Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell

1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering

1935 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging first demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)

1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

1936 Military coup in Japan

1938 First passenger ship equipped with radar

1938 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1938 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee

1940 The US Air Defense Command is created.

1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)

1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews

1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory

1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bombs

1942 Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under War Measures Act

1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies

1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"

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