1897 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed

1898 Death of Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, British author of Alice in Wonderland.

1898 Joe Darling hits the first six in Tests (out of the ground)

1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut vs England Adelaide (116)

1909 Coöp Far Central Management forms

1912 Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France

1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords

1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks

1918 Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar

1924 Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy

1929 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign

1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his first race

1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use

1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America

1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)

1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends

1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica

1939 Sydney, Australia swelters on one of its hottest days a high of 45.3 degrees Celsius.

1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers

1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo

1943 Alex Smart (Montreal) is first NHLer to score hat trick in his first game

1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII

1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw

1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow

1945 Death marches to the interior of Germany begin, taking 250,000 Jewish lives.

1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed

1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die

1950 US recalls all consular officials from China

1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends

1952 Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26

1952 The Today show on NBC-TV makes its debut.

1953 Yugoslavia elects its first president (Marshal Tito)

1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio

1954 Marilyn Monroe weds former NY Yankees slugger, Joe DiMaggio.

1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad

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