1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa

1907 J M Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" opens; police are called

1907 The first federal corrupt election practices law passed

1910 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris

1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots first successful hydroplane, San Diego CA

1913 Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro

1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike

1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index

1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established

1918 President Hoover calls for "wheatless" &"meatless" days for war effort

1920 Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window

1924 Parliament approves the Red Ensign as Canada's official flag for government buildings at home and abroad

1926 Television first demonstrated (John L Baird, London)

1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence

1930 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)

1931 Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty

1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)

1934 Bradman scores 128 New South Wales vs Victoria, 96 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes

1934 Nazi Germany &Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years

1934 The Apollo Theatre opens in New York City.

1936 Heatherfield, coaster, 500 tons. Ran ashore in a fog at Whitby, Yorkshire. Crew rescued by breeches buoy.

1939 Federal Hall National Monument established

1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"

1939 Franco conquers Barcelona

1940 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains

1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel

1942 The first US force in Europe during WWII goes ashore in Northern Ireland

1942 U.S. troops land in Northern Ireland to support the Allied effort during WWII.

1942 Wartime Prices and Trade Board brings in sugar rationing; 12 ounces per person per week

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 Soviet troops arrive at Auschwitz to discover 7,600 survivors and 648 corpses. Most of the prisoners in Auschwitz had been sent out on a death march on Jan 18.

1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die

1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed

1949 USS Norton Sound, first guided-missile ship, launches first guided missile, Loon.

1950 India becomes a republic as new President Rajendra Prasad takes the oath of office.

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