1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed

1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for first F-C victory in 41 years

1911 The first rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba

1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre

1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania

1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death

1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over New South Wales

1922 World Law Day, first celebrated

1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Victoria win over New South Wales

1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople

1927 Left wins national election in Thüringen

1930 Police arrest 9 members of the Standard Exchange for fraud; including members of the 5 biggest mining companies

1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa first innings at Adelaide Oval

1933 "The Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC radio

1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen

1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match

1933 The first episode of the Lone Ranger radio show is broadcast on Detroit station WXYZ. Hi yo, Silver, away!

1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days

1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states

1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"

1936 Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415

1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov &16 others sentenced to death

1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews

1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win

1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya

1942 Hitler speaks at the Sports Palace in Berlin, "The war will end with the complete annihilation of the Jews."

1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon

1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin

1943 German assault on French in Tunisia

1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal

1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean

1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands

1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die

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