1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering

1902 Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record

1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast

1910 US magician Harry Houdini completes three controlled flights in a Voisin boxkite biplane at Digger's Rest, Victoria, the first controlled flight in a powered aircraft in Australia. mar181913 - Greece's King George I is assassinated in Salonika

1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law

1914 Fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).

1914 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China

1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill)

1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed

1915 Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War

1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam

1919 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City

1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar

1921 Steamer "Hong Kong" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000

1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience

1925 The worst tornado in U.S. history passes through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring some 13,000 people, and causing seventeen million dollars in property damage. Known as the "Tri-State Tornado

1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain

1931 The first electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)

1933 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson

1933 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

1937 Gas explosion in school in New London TX; 296 die

1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies

1940 In the Brenner Pass in the Alps, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, and Benito Mussolini, leader of Fascist Italy, meet to discuss Italy’s imminent entrance into World War II in an alliance with Germany

1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out

1942 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters

1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod

1943 S.S. James Oglethorpe (US) & S.S. Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sunk

1944 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago IL department store

1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary

1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin

1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the first NHLer to score 50 goals

1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu

1947 William Durant auto manufacturer cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, died on this day

1948 France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels

1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting

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