1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months

1916 Six days after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa killed seventeen Americans during a raid into U.S. territory, President Woodrow Wilson sends 6,600 U.S. troops over the border to capture Villa dead or alive

1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control

1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate

1919 American Legion forms (Paris France)

1921 The colony of Ruanda, East Africa, is ceded to Britain by Belgium.

1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke

1926 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls

1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)

1930 The first streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched

1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination

1934 US Information Service opens

1935 George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs England at Kingston

1937 The first blood bank is established (Chicago IL)

1938 Saudi Arabia began producing oil, a natural resource that would transform a virtual dust bowl of a nation into one so wealthy that King Faisal's main problem was what to do with too much money

1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.

1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence

1940 Göring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest

1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151

1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java

1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov

1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing

1945 17th Academy Awards "Going my Way", Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win

1945 Billboard publishes its first album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)

1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens

1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence

1947 John Lee appointed first black commissioned officer in US Navy

1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs Western Australia

1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine

1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"

1951 In Teheran, Iran Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; founded by Lord Strathcona and first developed by Canadian drillers.

1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

1952 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La Réunion, Indian Ocean

1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1

1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar

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