1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar

1900 General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal

1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres

1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran

1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50

1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)

1914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco)

1916 SS Normanby.built in 1889 for the Ropner Company, the ship was mined and sunk off the Shipwash Lightship.

1917 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI

1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets

1922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain

1922 English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles

1923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands

1924 US begins intervention in Honduras

1925 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1

1925 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp

1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms

1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass

1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party

1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion

1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)

1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit

1935 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers

1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain

1940 Mario Andretti, auto racer and Indianapolis 500 Hall of Famer was born

1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published

1940 The first college basketball games are televised, as W2XBS in NY City broadcasts a pair of games from Madison Square Garden.

1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))

1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania

1942 HMAS PERTH (RAN) sunk in Sunda Strait, western Java by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.

1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies

1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit

1943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan

1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan

1951 French government of Pleven dissolves

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