1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their first Test win

1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London

1910 Commissioning of USS Michigan (BB-27), the first U.S. dreadnought battleship.

1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center

1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops

1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin

1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator

1932 Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs South Africa at the MCG

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru

1932 State of siege proclaimed in Honduras

1935 Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"

1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade

1936 Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs South Africa

1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected first woman dean of a US graduate school

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration

1942 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida

1943 Head SS office writes to all concentration camp commanders, requesting them to forward human hair for processing at the firm of Alex Zink, Filzfabrik A.G. near Nuremberg. A half-mark would be received by the Commandant for each kilo of human hair.

1943 Tom Wilkinson football player; CFL QB, Edmonton Eskimos, was born

1944 Ralph Bunche appointed first Negro official in US State Department

1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack

1948 Britain grants independence to Burma

1948 Burma gains its independence from Britain.

1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul

1951 North Korean and Communist Chinese troops capture the city of Seoul, during the Korean War.

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres

1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)

1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000

1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up

1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes first craft to leave Earth's gravity

1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants

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