1911 Formation of Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

1914 Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company, Vancouver Island

1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

1916 Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo

1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)

1919 First class postage drops from 3. to 2.

1924 Regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF

1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK

1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA

1932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago

1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja.

1934 First x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY

1941 Bulova Watch Co. pays $9 for first ever network TV commercial

1941 TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC

1943 MacArthur starts the Allied offensive in the Pacific; New Guinea Isles War.

1943 Withholding tax from paychecks starts

1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank

1945 Troops of the 7th Division land at Balikpapan in south-east Borneo

1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to the British crown

1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

1947 British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office

1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10., bus fare to 7. & combo fare at 12.

1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France

1949 Canadian Pacific accepts its last new steam locomotive (in March) class T-l-c 2-10-4 no. 5935 from Montreal Locomotive Works, and acquires its first road diesel-electric locomotives nos. 8400-8404 (in September) for conversion of motive power on the Montreal-Newport-Wells River line.

1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10. equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15.

1952 Actor Dan Akroyd (Ghostbusters, Saturday Night Live) was born.

1955 The escort carrier uss Thetis Bay, in process of conversion to the new mission, was reclassified as an assault Helicopter Aircraft Carrier and redesignated CVHA 1.

1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on The Steve Allen Show

1959 World Refugee Year begins

1960 Ghana becomes a republic

1960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic

1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii

1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)

1963 Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"

1963 US postal service institutes the (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code

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