1913 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy

1915 The Germans perform the first aerial bombing of Britain, from a pair of Zeppelin dirigibles during WWI.

1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die

1915 With the European powers preoccupied with World War I, Japan secretly presents China with Twenty-one Demands for privileges.

1919 WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France

1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy the Rotunda in Dublin

1927 Empress Charlotte, wife of Mexico's ill-fated Emperor Maximilian, dies.

1929 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio

1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo

1930 -27ºF (-33ºC), Watts OK (state record)

1933 White Sands National Monument, NM established

1937 Future billionaire Howard Hughes sets a record for transcontinental air flight, making the trip from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes.

1939 South African wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs New South Wales

1942 Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman

1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

1943 Moscow announced the 16-month Nazi siege of Leningrad was lifted.

1943 Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts

1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad

1944 The first Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts

1945 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74,600 have been deported to Auschwitz.

1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400

1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)

1949 "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)

1949 South African Reverend Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer

1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against German Democratic Republic"

1951 The first use of lie detector in Netherlands

1954 Fanfani forms Italian government

1955 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower agrees to allow a presidential news conference to be aired (but not broadcast live) on television for the first time.

1956 German Democratic Republic forms own army

1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes

1958 The first black in the NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)

1960 US & Japan sign joint defense treaty

1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat

1962 Southern University closed due to demonstrations

1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas

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