1898 The first telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake

1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured

1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam

1907 Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome)

1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state

1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded

1915 In France, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry go into action in France

1918 Over France, Canadian Captain J. Hedley of the Royal Flying Corps sucked from his seat and out of the plane while diving to escape German fighters; slipstream pulled him back to the plane when it levelled out.

1919 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the U.S., dies in Oyster Bay, New York at age 60.

1920 Winnipeg, Manitoba T. A. Crerar chairs a meeting of Ontario and Prairie farmers' organizations to establish the National Progressive Party

1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments

1924 Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo

1926 Kees Boeke opens first comprehensive school in Holland

1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua

1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)

1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia

1930 Bradman scores 452* for New South Wales against Queensland, 377 minutes, 49 fours

1930 The first diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed

1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's first woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)

1937 Bradman scores 270 Australia vs England at the MCG, including 110 singles

1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx

1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want &from fear)

1942 The first around world flight by a Pan Am flying boat the "Pacific Clipper"

1945 George Bush, later to become U.S. vice-president and president, marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.

1945 HMS WALPOLE, damaged off the Scheldt Estuary, Holland by German mine.

1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum

1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs England in MCG Test

1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China

1952 Charles Schulz' comic strip Peanuts first appeared in Sunday newspapers.

1953 The start of Vancouver's longest wet spell on record; ends 29 days later, with rain recorded on every one of 29 days; and you wonder why X files is filming in California

1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th &final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show

1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia

1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar

1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC

1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville

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