1916 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium

1917 Lieutenant FH McNamara, 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, becomes the only member of the AFC to win a Victoria Cross for his action in the raid on Tel el Hasi, Palestine

1920 The first flight from London to South Africa lands (1½ months)

1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld

1920 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger

1923 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA

1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent

1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn

1929 British Columbia Telephone Company sets up subsidiary, North-West Telephone Company, the world's first radiotelephone company

1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph

1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin

1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR

1933 Dachau, first concentration camp, completed

1933 Establishment of the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Dachau.

1934 Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany

1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio

1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain

1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania

1939 Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King tells Parliament that Canada will consider any attack on Britain as an attack on the Commonwealth.

1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier

1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn

1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia

1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"

1942 Major German assault on Malta

1943 British offensive against Mareth-line

1943 German U-384 bombed &sunk

1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16

1944 Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 appointed to command of 1st Canadian Army; largest field formation ever formed by Canada; includes British, Dutch, Belgian, and Polish units.

1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes

1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar

1946 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns

1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

1948 20th Academy Awards "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win

1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java

1952 24th Academy Awards "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart &Vivian Leigh win

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