1899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific

1905 Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago IL

1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly

1911 First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely.

1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

1913 Raymond Poincaré elected President of France

1915 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens

1915 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine

1916 The Professional Golfers Association is formed today in New York City.

1917 The United States bought 50 of the Virgin Islands in the West Indies from Denmark for $25 million.

1917 US pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands

1920 Paul Deschanel elected President of France

1923 Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied

1923 Origin of Brown lunation numbers

1926 George Burns marries Gracie Allen

1928 The first fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented

1929 King Inayatullah of Afghanistan forced to abdicate after a coup; he ruled for only three days.

1929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"

1933 Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled

1934 Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated

1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman

1943 Tin Can Drive Day

1944 Corvette Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

1945 Warsaw is liberated by Polish and Soviet forces during WWII.

1946 The United Nations Security Council meets for the first time.

1946 United Nations Security Council holds its first meeting

1947 Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die

1948 Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire

1948 Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in New York City NY

1950 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities

1951 China refuses cease-fire in Korea

1954 Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)

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