1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title

1898 The first practical submarine submerges, off New York NY for 1 hour 40 minutes

1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die

1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands

1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in New York

1906 Japan nationalises its railways

1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"

1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)

1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Netherlands

1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick

1916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history

1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne

1918 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford

1918 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Nathaniel Niles

1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages

1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's first birth control clinic (London)

1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics

1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)

1924 Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition

1924 Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats

1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3

1926 Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid

1931 In an attempt to lift the state from the hard times of the Great Depression, the Nevada state legislature votes to legalize gamblin

1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee

1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter

1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)

1941 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC opens

1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported

1942 Extermination begins at Belzec.

1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

1943 The ships, Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sink

1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke

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