1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day

1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam

1908 The Prince Edward Island Assembly passes a law to ban all automobiles from its roads, since rescinded

1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers &the sick

1910 William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US

1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the first Balkan War

1913 Dayton OH almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, &Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary

1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan", in London

1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies

1926 The first lip-reading tournament held in America

1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA

1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms

1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway

1931 Iraq &Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty

1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies

1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain

1935 "RvJ" Mitchell &Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire fighter aircraft decide on 8 .303 machine guns

1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech

1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska

1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice &replace his 40 with 36 oz bat

1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye

1937 William H Hastie becomes first black federal judge (Virgin Islands)

1941 HMS YORK, lost Eastern Mediterranean, in Suda Bay, north Crete - badly damaged by Italian explosive motor boats, beached and later wrecked by bombing

1942 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA

1942 ADM King becomes both Chief of Naval Operations and Commander, U.S. Fleet

1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel

1942 The first "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz &Birkenau Camps

1942 The first 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec

1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean

1943 Second Lieutenant Moananui-a-Kiwi NGARIMU, 28th NZ (Maori) Battalion, won the Victoria Cross at Tebaga Gap, Tunisia

1943 The first woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)

1944 705 British bombers attack Essen

1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)

1945 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine

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