1921 Warren G. Harding is sworn in as the 29th US President.

1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny

1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US

1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office

1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes first native American Vice President

1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President

1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated

1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament

1933 FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"

1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, first US woman cabinet member

1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in (for his first term) as US President.

1934 Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated

1936 First flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany

1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague

1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler

1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy

1944 First US bombing of Berlin

1945 Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany

1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister

1949 Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player

1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel

1952 Hokkaido, Japan a 8.3 earthquake occurred 31 killed, 572 injured; 713 houses destroyed, 5,980 damaged. 28 killed and warehouses destroyed at Kushiro. 3 killed and 309 houses destroyed at Kiratapu. 1,000 houses destroyed or damaged at Shiranuka and 400 schools collapsed at Sapporo. 10-foot tsunami.

1952 Movie star Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis.

1955 The first radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent

1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet

1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100

1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz

1962 AEC announces first atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation

1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering

1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2

1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, 64 die

1966 Canadian Pacific DC-8 explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people, including 18 Canadians

1966 Demonstrators protest Vietnam war on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

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