1889 The Ivory Coast becomes a French protectorate

1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown

1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas

1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)

1911 The first photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego

1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs South Africa, goes on to get 214

1912 Caillaux government in France resigns

1912 World's first flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)

1914 First edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published

1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus

1917 Navy places first production order for aerial photographic equipment.

1918 The U.S. House of Representatives passes women's suffrage.

1920 Canada becomes a founding member of the League of Nations on the day the Treaty of Versailles, ending the First World War, takes effect

1920 League of Nations' first meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect

1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce

1920 The League of Nations is established by the Treaty of Versailles.

1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)

1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel

1925 France-Saarland forms

1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation's 2nd woman governor

1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres

1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs New Zealand Christchurch

1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted

1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated

1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts

1934 VP-10F flies first non-stop formation flight from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, arriving 11 Jan.

1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks

1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's first conductor at Concert Hall

1939 Bradman hits 186 South Africa vs Queensland before Christ catches him at short-leg

1940 First convoy carrying units of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) sails for the Middle East

1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in New York City NY

1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews

1942 Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion admitted to the Quebec Bar Quebec's first female lawyers

1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies

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