1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup

1908 Jan 21, A New York City law is passed making it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.

1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public

1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia

1911 The first Monte Carlo motor rally begins.

1913 Aristide Briand forms French government

1915 Jan 21, The first Kiwanis Club is chartered, in Detroit, Michigan.

1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit

1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland

1922 The first slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland

1924 Jan 21, Russian revolutionary and founder of Bolshevism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, dies at age 54.

1924 Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54.

1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President

1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties

1927 The first national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)

1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty

1935 The Wilderness Society founded

1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance

1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1939 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee

1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship

1941 Anti-Jewish riots take place in Rumania. Gangs of Rumanian Legionnaires hunt for Jews, loot and beat Jews in the street, desecrate 25 synagogues, destroy hundreds of homes and shops, and butcher hundreds of Jews.

1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya

1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

1941 The first anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria

1941 The first commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX

1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal

1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"

1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain

1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca

1942 Unified partisan organization is established in the Vilna ghetto. Resistance organization set upon Kovno ghetto.

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad

1943 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of Fleet

1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg

1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma

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