1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns

1893 Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin

1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing

1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook

1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (BG)

1903 Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel

1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as first international radio distress signal

1907 Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in New York City NY

1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG

1910 Ottawa Senators sweep Galt in 2 games for the Stanley Cup

1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam

1911 First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco

1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum

1914 The first steam powered boat passes through the Panama Canal

1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun

1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan

1925 Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in New York City NY

1926 Comics George Burns and Gracie Allen are married in Cleveland, Ohio.

1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York &London

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play first game (Hinckley IL)

1929 "Buck Rogers," first sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1929 The first telephone connection between Netherlands &East Indies

1930 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in New York City NY

1933 Australian aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler killed when his DH80A Puss Moth crashes in mountains in Italy en route from England to Australia.

1933 First edition of People &Fatherland published in Netherlands

1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld

1935 Zöe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in New York City NY

1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody &Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)

1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts

1944 Air Force announces production of first US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen

1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union

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