1914 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"

1916 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)

1916 Germany declares war against Portugal

1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda

1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended

1924 Italy annexes Fiume

1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)

1926 Bertha Landes elected first woman mayor of Seattle

1928 First telephone call between Vancouver British Columbia, and London, England.

1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland

1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria

1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin

1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"

1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player

1937 In Western Ohio a 5.4 earthquake, the largest historical earthquake in Ohio occurred

1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began

1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown

1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps

1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb

1945 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China

1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang

1947 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill

1947 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia

1949 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes

1949 The first all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad.

1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY

1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow

1954 This was the day that critics called"TV’s coming of age." Edward R. Murrow presented his report on Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Wisconsin Senator, .

1954 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials

1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles

1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England

1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska

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