1910 National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress

1913 Raymond Poincaré installed as President of France

1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude

1915 The first German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die

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

1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die

1918 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly

1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French government

1920 US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union

1922 Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years

1923 The Grand Trunk Railway is amalgamated into the Canadian National System by order in council P.C. 114. By 1923 the system included the Canadian Government Railways (including the Intercolonial, the Prince Edward Island and the National Transcontinental Railways); the Hudson Bay Railway; the Canadian Northern and its subsidiaries; the Grand Trunk Pacific; and the Grand Trunk (including the Grand Trunk Western and the Grand Trunk New England lines).

1925 -48ºF (-44ºC), Van Buren ME (state record)

1927 British government decides to send troops to China

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

1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established

1932 Charlie Conacher becomes first Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, the first coming at 7 seconds of the game

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.

1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines

1938 The Spanish Nationalist air force bombed Barcelona and Valencia, killing 700 civilians and wounding hundreds more.

1941 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan

1942 Japanese forces invade Burma

1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers

1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily

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

1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392

1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane

1952 PGA approves allowing black participants

1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary

1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market

1955 "The Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS

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 Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field

1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact

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