1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1925 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop

1927 Bloody battles between communists &Nazis in Berlin

1928 "Amos &Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)

1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi

1931 Nevada legalizes gambling

1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened by New South Wales Premier Jack Lang

1937 Commons passes bill banning Canadian enlistment in the Spanish Civil War.

1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism

1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes

1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt

1940 French government of Daladier, falls

1941 Jimmy Dorsey &his Orchestraestra record "Green Eyes" &"Maria Elena"

1942 FDR orders men between 45 &64 to register for non military duty

1942 SecNav gave Civil Engineering Corps command of Seabees

1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago

1943 Airship Canadian Star torpedoed &sinks

1944 German Army invades Hungary.

1944 Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time", premieres in London

1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan

1945 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree destruction of German facilities

1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)

1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure

1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique &Réunion become overseas departments

1946 Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as President of USSR

1947 Belgian government of Spaak, forms

1947 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan

1948 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York NY

1949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN

1950 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias

1950 City College of New York defeats Bradley to win the NIT

1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny", published

1953 25th Academy Awards "Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper &Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)

1953 Cecil B. DeMille received the only Oscar of his illustrious career for the circus extravaganza, The Greatest Show on Earth

1953 Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real", premieres in New York NY

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