1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered

1907 Charles Collier wins first Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)

1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)

1913 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote

1914 US Congress establishes mother's day

1914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House

1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost

1915 Nearly 1200 people are killed when the British liner Lusitania is sunk off the Irish coast bya German torpedo

1915 The Cunard Line's passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915

1920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia

1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands, 1-2

1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad

1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana

1927 San Fransisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated

1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21

1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)

1934 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal

1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region

1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)

1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines

1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"

1939 Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis

1940 The Lodz ghetto is sealed. 165,000 people in 1.6 square miles.

1940 Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain

1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)

1941 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid

1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA

1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion

1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed

1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia

1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps

1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched

1943 Navy representatives witnessed landing trials of the XR-4 helicopter aboard the merchant tanker Bunker

1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia

1943 US first Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia

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