1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated

1909 Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 sets up Strathcona Trust, a fund for military training and cadet corps in schools.

1913 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit

1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails

1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China

1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)

1924 German Republic day

1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

1928 450 die in St Franciso Valley Dam burst (California)

1928 Eileen Vollick 1899-1972 gets pilot's licence; first Canadian woman to be a licensed pilot

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

1930 Discovery of the planet Pluto by Clyde W Tombaugh made his discovery on February 18 and announced it on March 13

1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda

1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain

1938 "Anschluss," annexation of Austria to the Third Reich.

1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische

1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)

1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes first woman colonel in US army

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government

1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands

1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman

1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances

1947 19th Academy Awards "Best Years of Our Lives", Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win

1949 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman

1949 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms

1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany

1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal

1956 New Zealand bowl out West Indies for 77 at Eden Park to score their first Test Cricket win

1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba

1958 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia

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