1921 Hurricane hits Washington &Oregon

1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras &El Salvador dissolved

1923 The first flight of the autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)

1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland

1925 British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader

1927 4th German government of Marx forms

1929 Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms

1932 Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide

1933 German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor

1936 The first inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, are announced. They include Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.

1942 German &Italian troops occupy Benghazi

1942 Peru &Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)

1943 Battle of Wau in New Guinea starts

1943 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal

1944 285 German bombers attack London

1944 HMS Spartan sunk a 5.25in-armed "Bellona" class AA cruiser. Lost off Anzio, Italy

1946 The racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti

1949 Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand &Switzerland recognize Israel

1951 Liz Taylor's first divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)

1953 The first movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres

1958 Movie actor Paul Newman and actress Joanne Woodward are married.

1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming

1958 Paul Newman &Joanne Woodward wed

1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released

1961 US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen

1961 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord

1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange &George Halas elected to football hall of fame

1963 Poet Robert Frost dies in Boston at age 88.

1963 The first inductees to the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, are revealed. They include Earl Lambeau, Earl (Dutch) Clark, and Sammy Baugh.

1964 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria

1964 Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" &"Sie Leibt Dich"

1964 Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres

1964 Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit

1966 Lawry &Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs England, Adelaide

1966 Snow storm in north east US kills 165

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