1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization

1891 The first jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall

1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast

1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1912 Dixie Cup invented

1915 Zion Mule Corp forms

1917 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US

1917 Launching of USS New Mexico, first dreadnought with turboelectric drive

1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River

1918 Crépy-en-Laonnoise German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed

1918 Lithuania proclaims independence

1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)

1918 The giant German gun, Big Bertha, shells Paris from 120 km away;

1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted

1919 Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento

1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms

1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms

1922 First airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC

1923 Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"

1925 Tennessee becomes first state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution

1929 First telephone installed in White House

1930 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson

1930 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

1933 Enabling Act German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers

1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens

1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945

1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome

1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars

1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland

1940 First radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS

1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported

1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean

1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers

1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia

1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die

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