1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund

1904 The first main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)

1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast

1907 At Toulon, France, the battleship Iena explodes, killing at least 118 men

1912 Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane

1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low

1913 Canberra becomes the capital of Australia when the foundation stone of the Federal Parliament building is laid.

1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid

1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3

1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets

1917 Stalin, Kamenev &Muranov arrive in St Petersburg

1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

1925 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement

1925 Death of Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary leader.

1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament

1930 Mahatma Gandhi began a march to the sea, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India

1932 The so-called "Swedish Match King", Ivar Kreuger, commits suicide in Paris, leaving behind a financial empire that turns out to be worthless

1933 FDR announces the "New Deal."

1933 FDR conducts his first "fireside chat"

1934 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia

1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail

1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns &villages

1938 Germans enter Vienna, and 183,000 Jews in Austria fall under Nazi control. Within one month, 500 Jews commit suicide.

1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)

1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies

1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus

1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands

1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal

1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma

1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers

1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy

1945 New York is the first to prohibit discrimination by race &creed in employment

1945 The British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day

1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania

1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland

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