1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates

1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians

1932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds

1935 Trust the Newfie's, Newfoundland changes its time to 3 hours west of Greenwich, and repeats 44 seconds.

1937 Oscar winner Warren Beatty born this day

1939 Prime Minister Mackenzie King said Canada will not conscript men for foreign service, Ya Right

1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa

1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

1942 The first RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau

1942 World War II food rationing introduced in Australia for tea, sugar and butter.

1943 British first army recaptures Sejenane

1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg

1944 First use of torpedo squadrons from carriers to drop aerial mines (Palau Harbor)

1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund

1945 USSR invades Austria during WWII

1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ

1952 6th Tony Awards Fourposter and King and I win

1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory

1954 Toronto Transit Commission opens the first part of the Toronto subway, the first subway in Canada.

1955 27th Academy Awards "On the Waterfront", Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly win

1956 USSR performs nuclear test

1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)

1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race

1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS

1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed

1967 In Victoria BC, opening of SEACOM Southeast Asia Commonwealth Cable; 40,000 km link between Britain, Canada and Australia.

1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia

1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released

1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship

1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances

1972 A very sad day in the Canadian navy, the last daily rum ration issued to Canadian naval personnel.

1972 Easter Offensive began in Vietnam

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