1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger

1906 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra", premieres in Berlin

1906 King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.

1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt

1909 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time

1914 Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia

1914 Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.

1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements

1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands

1918 First daylight savings time in US goes into effect

1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann

1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity

1921 British coal miners goes on strike

1921 Establishment of the Royal Australian Air Force.

1921 Formation of Australian Air Force, which becomes the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on 31aug1921

1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam

1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die

1924 London public transport strike ends

1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands

1929 Aviators Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Litchfield and McWilliam leave Sydney for England in Southern Cross; they were forced down in northwest Australia and lost until April 12).

1931 in Nicaragua a 5.6 earthquake occurred 2,450 dead. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

1931 The great Knute Rockne died in a plane crash

1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall

1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine

1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps

1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler

1939 Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany (and so it begins)

1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)

1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa

1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco

1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway

1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326

1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars

1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine

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