1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)

1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France

1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)

1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title

1910 China ends slavery

1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing

1913 Death of Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor who rescued more than 300 of her people from slavery.

1914 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez

1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

1915 Canadians see action in Battle of Neuve Chapellein France

1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa

1925 Walter Mittelholzer is first to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran

1926 Run on Belgian banks

1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian &Slovenes

1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches

1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley

1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach CA

1933 Nevada becomes first US state to regulate narcotics

1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)

1934 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Suzanne Davis

1934 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

1937 An audience of 21,000 jitterbuggers jammed the Paramount Theatre in New York City to see Benny Goodman whom they would crown, ‘King of Swing’ on this night. The popular musician was .

1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India

1943 In northern Bulgaria, farmers threaten to lie down on the tracks to prevent the deportation of Jews. Government rescinds the order to deport Northern Bulgarian Jews.

1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine

1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence

1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's first Army

1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombing

1945 US troops lands on Mindanao

1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil

1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner

1952 Military coup by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios

1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)

1957 Shannon Lee Tweed model, actress, born at St John's Newfoundland in 1957. Tweed was Playboy Playmate, Nov 1981 and Playmate of the Year; actress, Meatballs 3, ws born

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