1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1

1906 The first radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile

1908 French pilot Henry Farman is first European to fly roundtrip

1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin

1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin

1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay

1911 South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide

1912 -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)

1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia

1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000

1915 SS Roebuck, formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank.

1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles

1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended

1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections

1927 US &Mexico battle over oil interests

1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA

1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears

1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany

1937 The U.S. government announces that Americans are cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.

1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco

1941 Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.

1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast

1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies

1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration

1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca

1943 Hitler declares "Total War"

1943 HMCS Ville de Quebec (Corvette) make Canada's first U-Boat sinking in the Mediterranean

1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov

1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal

1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14

1953 Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia

1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested

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