1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco

1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland

1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

1923 President Warren G Harding became first President filing income tax report and pay taxes

1929 NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and relief

1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation

1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense

1936 Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue

1937 Battle of the Century Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio

1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge

1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day

1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia

1939 Robert Menzies resigns as Australia's attorney-general and deputy leader of the United Australia Party over party's refusal to adopt a national insurance scheme.

1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX

1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies

1941 Xavier Cugat and his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"

1942 Australians are required to carry identity cards in World War II

1945 During World War II, the 617 Dambuster Squadron of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) drops the heaviest bomb of the war on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Known as the "Grand Slam," the 22,000-pound bomb, which was designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, is dropped from an Avro Lancaster flown by RAF Squadron Leader C.C. Calder

1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm

1945 The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 9,988kg "Grand Slam", is dropped by the RAF's Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.

1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms

1946 Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying

1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco

1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins

1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul

1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany

1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party

1955 Off the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 7.0 earthquake one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States

1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal

1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns

1957 Off the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 7.1 earthquake offucred

1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)

1958 South Africa government disallows ANC

1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

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