1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free

1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor

1920 Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres

1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000

1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia

1922 The first living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar

1924 British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovers the mummified remains of Tutankhamen, boy-king of Egypt.

1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator

1926 Greek General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator

1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president

1929 Bradman scores 112 vs England at MCG - his first Test century

1938 The March of Dimes campaign to stomp out polio is organized

1939 Gene Cox becomes first girl page in US House of Representatives

1941 Australian troops capture Bardia, Libya, from the Italians

1941 Canada &US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease)

1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania

1941 Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia

1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms

1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa

1943 The first missing persons telecast (New York City NY)

1944 Helicopter Mercy Mission a HNS-1 helicopter, made an emergency delivery of 40 units of blood plasma from lower Manhattan Island to Sandy Hook where the plasma was administered to survivors of an explosion on the destroyer Turner (DD 648)

1944 Top Marine ace MAJ Boyington captured after shooting down 28 aircraft

1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab

1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France

1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room

1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government

1945 John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City NY

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa

1947 Congressional proceedings are televised for the first time as viewers in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. witness opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.

1947 William Dawson becomes first black to head congressional committee

1948 Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 &127*) vs India MCG

1949 "Colgate Theatre" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV

1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents

1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV

1952 Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38

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