1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established

1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88º23' south

1911 Toronto born Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith) appears in her first IMP film, Their First Misunderstanding.

1912 US marines invade Honduras

1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends

1923 Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain

1925 German Postal Minister A Höfle resigns due to corruption

1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died

1927 Small fire breaks out in the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal Quebec, firemen arrive within 2 minutes and put out the blaze in 10 minutes, but the children panic to escape; 12 are crushed to death and 64 are asphyxiated at the bases of stairways

1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1935 Bob Denver actor Gillis, Gilligan’s Island was born

1936 Noël Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London

1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army

1936 The United States Army adopted the semiautomatic rifle this day

1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians

1937 Judith Krantz author Scruples was born

1937 The first issue of Look magazine appears on news stands today.

1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium

1940 The Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) is set up again to raise money for comfort parcels for dispatch to service personnel in Australia and overseas

1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania

1941 Joan Baez singer The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; political activist was born

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1941 Maiden flight of Canadian built Avro Lancaster military bomber at Downsview

1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars

1945 U.S. forces land on Luzon, Phillipines.

1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines

1951 Life After Tomorrow, first film to receive an "X" rating, premieres

1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns

1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title

1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

1954 Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game

1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column first appears in newspapers

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