1906 Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)

1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established

1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole

1911 Pandora becomes first 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east

1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland

1914 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia

1915 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific International Expo gold coin

1919 Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming ratify the Prohibition Amendment, adding it to the Constitution.

1919 The United States went legally dry as prohibition of alcoholic beverages took effect under the 18th amendment to the Constitution. The amendment was repealed in 1933.

1920 18th Amendment, the "National Prohibition Act," becomes law. Individuals are allowed to produce wine for religious purposes.

1920 First assembly of League of Nations (Paris)

1920 Georgia declares independence

1920 The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution takes effect, banning the sale of beer and distilled spirits.

1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council

1925 Leon Trotsky was dismissed as chairman of the Russian Revolution Military Council.

1930 USS Lexington provides power to Tacoma, WA, when floods knocked out city power plants

1931 Bradman scores 223 Australia vs West Indies, 297 minutes, 26 fours

1933 Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test

1936 Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president

1936 Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular

1936 The first photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah FL

1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts

1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor

1941 War Department forms first Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

1942 Actress Carole Lombard, and twenty other people, die in a plane crash near Las Vegas.

1942 Screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other people were killed in a commercial airliner crash near Las Vegas, Nev. Lombard was the wife of actor Clark Gable.

1942 William Knudsen becomes first civilian appointed a General in US army

1943 -60ºF (-51ºC), Island Park Dam ID (state record)

1943 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow

1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad

1943 The first US air raid on Ambon

1944 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.

1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London

1944 In London, General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes commander of the Allied Invasion Force, during WWII.

1944 Lieutenant (jg) S. R. Graham, USCG, while en route from New York to Liverpool in the British freighter Daghestan made a 30 minute flight in an R-4B (HNS-1) from the ship's 60 by 80 foot flight deck

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