1915 British Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool

1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight

1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

1919 Mount Kelud erupts in Indonesia, killing 5,000 people.

1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens

1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected Governor of Suwayda

1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriótis becomes President of Greece

1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony

1926 British coal-miners go on strike

1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League

1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam

1927 The first British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)

1928 6 children die &10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania

1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter

1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)

1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service

1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen

1929 In Iran a 7.4 earthquake resulted in 3,300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin

1930 Bradman scores 236 Australia vs Worcestershire, his first f-class innings in England

1931 Empire State Building opens in New York NY

1931 Norway claims Peter I Island

1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS

1931 The 102-story Empire State Building is dedicated today in New York City

1932 First Suriname union congress at Paramaribo

1934 "Der Sturmer's" special 14-page issue accuses Jews of using Christian blood in their Passover baking and in other Judaic rituals.

1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican

1934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence

1935 Boulder Dam completed

1935 Canada's first silver dollar is circulated

1935 Royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V

1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades

1936 FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis

1937 FDR signs act of neutrality

1939 Batman Comics hit the street

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