1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400

1914 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld

1914 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Norman M Scott

1917 Loretta Walsh becomes first woman Navy petty officer when sworn in as Chief Yeoman.

1918 During World War I, the Second Battle of the Somme, the first major German offensive in over a year, begins on the Western Front

1919 Navy installs and tests Sperry gyrocompass, in first instance of test of aircraft gyrocompass

1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition

1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes first mutual fund set up in US

1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens

1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar

1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee

1931 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson

1931 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

1933 Hitler, Göring, Prince Ruprecht, Brüning & top army meet in Berlin

1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500

1935 Persia officially renamed Iran

1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade

1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland

1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk

1942 Heavy German assault on Malta

1942 The Flying Tigers were incorporated into the U.S. Army Air Force

1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia

1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy

1945 Bureau of Aeronautics initiates rocket-powered surface-to-air guided missile development by awarding contract to Fairchild

1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany

1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police

1945 The first Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa

1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)

1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur

1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea

1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend first rock & roll concert ever

1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama & Kentucky cause 343 deaths

1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece

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