1905 Near Islands, Alaska a 7.0 earthquake occurred one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States

1914 World's first airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins

1917 One week after socialist revolutionaries forced Russian Czar Nicholas II to abdicate, the United States becomes the first government in the world to recognize Russia’s provincial government

1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

1929 U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana

1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor

1931 Star Trek actor William Shatner born this day.

1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal

1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)

1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)

1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany

1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation

1942 Heavy German assault on Malta

1943 Crematorium II at Birkenau is now ready for use.

1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour

1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium

1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children

1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin

1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt

1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein

1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan

1946 The first US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)

1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44

1953 Antonín Zápotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia

1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco shakes

1957 In the Fox Islands, Alaska area a 7.o earthquake occurred, one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States

1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian

1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia

1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)

1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1960 Patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

1963 Beatles release first album, "Please Please Me"

1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler

1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section

1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

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