1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie

1927 Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian &Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty

1930 Planet Pluto named

1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945

1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network

1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL)

1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress

1941 British troops defeat British Somalia

1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya

1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his first movie for 20th Century Fox

1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) later made into a movie

1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin

1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians

1945 150 bombers fly from Italy to bomb Berlin.

1945 Cpl. Frederick G. Topham (1st Cdn. Parachute Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Diersfordt Wood, Germany

1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery &Bradley discuss advance in Germany

1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports &1300 gliders

1945 Operation Varsity British, US &Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine

1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa

1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency

1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

1949 21st Academy Awards "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier &Jane Wyman win

1949 Walter &John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor &director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")

1950 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman

1950 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa

1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years

1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances

1955 The first seagoing oil drill rig placed in service

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact

1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later

1962 Mick Jagger &Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue &Blue Boys

1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued

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