1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine

1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw

1900 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa

1900 England's Labour Party is founded.

1905 Montana adopts its state flag.

1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides

1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)

1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma

1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway

1917 Women in Ontario win right to vote in provincial elections

1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)

1919 First public performance of Holst's "The Planets"

1921 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1921 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes first National Radio Conference

1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in New York NY

1922 The US Supreme Court unanimously upholds a woman's right to vote.

1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls

1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich

1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 vs England

1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath

1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact

1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency

1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)

1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire

1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris

1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists

1934 Ralph Nader consumer advocate, known for role against GM and Ford was born

1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1 04.6)

1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes

1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain

1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls

1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire

1939 The US Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.

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