1877 Australian immigrants' friend, Caroline Chisholm, dies in London.

1882 The first demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York NY)

1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber

1889 The first Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England

1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon OH for Washington DC

1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece

1898 Assist. SECNAV Theodore Roosevelt proposes Navy investigate military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation

1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis

1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown IA

1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine

1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South

1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Nearly 146 workers died, mostly immigrant women. Many were trapped because of locked exits.

1913 Great Dayton Flood

1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea

1915 The first submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21

1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title (New York NY)

1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match

1920 Greek Independence Day

1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy

1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriótis as premier

1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama

1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads

1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)

1937 Lionel Conacher misses on first Stanley Cup penalty shot

1937 Washington Daily News is first US newspaper with perfumed advertising page

1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart

1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp

1942 R&B vocalist Aretha Franklin born this day.

1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration

1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio

1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome

1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute

1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg

1945 US first army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen

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