1892 Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl

1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia

1897 M H Cannon becomes first woman state senator in US (Utah)

1902 Popular Mechanics magazine hit the newsstands for the first time.

1904 Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising

1911 Record Alberta low temperature of -61.1C recorded at Fort Vermilion

1913 Bread &Roses Strike begins

1913 The first sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City NY)

1914 Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sees his Canadian Arctic Expedition ship Karluk crushed by ice near Herald Island, north of Siberia, 300 km short of his destination of Herschel Island; one of three ships of Stefansson expedition; many of the survivors will die before they reach Wrangel Island, 100 km away, where they wait until September before being rescued

1915 Colonel Jacob Ruppert &Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000

1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu

1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed

1919 Romania annexes Transylvania

1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die

1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)

1922 Quebec Catholic bishops pronounce themselves opposed to votes for women.

1923 French &Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations

1924 SS Helgoland, she had sought shelter off the Ards coast but dragged her anchors and stranded at Tara Point, Ulster. The crew climbed the rigging to seek safety but had to remain there all night until they were rescued. During World War One she had been a 'Q' ship, with disguised gunnery for use against enemy submarines.

1925 Franc B Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Secretary of State

1934 Jean Chretien Canadian P.M. and lawyer, politician, born at Shawinigan, Quebec

1935 Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to make a solo airplane flight from Hawaii to California.

1938 Frances Moulton elected first woman president of a US national bank

1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo &Juliet premieres in Leningrad

1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton

1942 -23ºF (-31ºC), Kingston RI (state record)

1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

1943 US &Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China

1944 Aircraft from USS Block Island make first aircraft rocket attack on German submarine

1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established

1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself dictator

1949 Snowfall first recorded in Los Angeles

1954 A two ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche - 10 die (Austria)

1957 Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent arrives in Egypt with men and supplies for the UN emergency force; Canadian strength in Egypt now about 1,000 men

1958 Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges as crusty frogman and good guy Mike Nelson, debuts on CBS-TV.

1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then first class world record

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