1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania

1918 President Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal

1919 The Minister of Railways is appointed as receiver for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt

1922 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1922 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger

1925 American Negro Congress organizes

1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan

1927 In Tango, Japan a 7.9 earthquake resulted in 3,020 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

1929 In the Fox Islands, Alaska a 7.8 earthquake occurred, one of the largest earthquakes in the United States

1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4

1935 Saar incorporated into Germany

1936 Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.

1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland nobody complains

1937 Bucharin, Jagoda &Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR

1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing

1939 Guy Lombardo &Royal Canadians first record "Auld Lang Syne"

1939 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record their signature tune, Auld Lang Syne, for Decca Records; Lombardo born in London, Ontario.

1941 3rd largest snowfall in New York NY history (18.1")

1941 50,000 British soldiers land in Greece but do not stay long

1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta

1942 The first cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee

1943 General-Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia

1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma

1945 Cologne taken by allied armies

1945 The Commanding Officer, CGAS Floyd Bennett Field reported that a dunking sonar suspended from an XHOS-1 helicopter had been tested successfully.

1945 The tandem rotor XHRP-X transport helicopter, built under Navy contract by P-V Engineering Forum made its first flight at the contractor's plant at Sharon Hill

1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine

1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms

1950 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in London won by Karol Kennedy &Peter Kennedy (USA)

1950 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova (Czechoslovakia)

1950 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA); this is his 3rd consecutive win

1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round heavyweight decision against Jersey Joe Walcott

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