1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act

1917 The Drayton-Acworth report is produced being the findings of two out of three members of a Royal Commission which was set up in 1916. Sir Henry L. Drayton was Chairman of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada while William Ackworth came from London. The third member, who produced a minority report, was Alfred H. Smith, President of the New York Central Railway. The report recommends that the Government take over the Grand Trunk, the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern companies and operate them as one system together with the Intercolonial and the National Transcontinental Railway. The recommendations are accepted by the Government.

1919 The first US air passenger service starts

1920 The first game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis

1921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia

1923 Emilio Picariello and his housekeeper, Florence Lassandro, hanged for the murder of Alberta Provincial Police Constable Steve Lawson in Sept. 1922

1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR

1925 Kezar Stadium in San Fransisco's Golden Gate Park opens

1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua

1927 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens

1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)

1932 Jack Benny's first radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)

1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth)

1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court

1936 "Peter &the Wolf" premieres in Moscow

1936 Emperor Haile Selassie &family flee Abyssinia

1938 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"

1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)

1941 Anti-British revolt, encouraged by Germany, takes place in Iraq.

1941 FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1

1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists

1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma

1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia

1945 Allies occupy Wismar

1945 Berlin surrenders to Russian troops

1945 British Army enters Lubeck in the Baltic, sealing off German forces in Denmark.

1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina &Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen

1945 First Helicopter Rescue--Lieutenant August Kleisch, USCG, flying a HNS-1 helicopter rescued 11 Canadian airmen that were marooned in northern Labrador about 125 miles from Goose Bay

1945 German Army in Italy surrenders

1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders

1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste

1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die

1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"

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