1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public

1878 Phonograph shown for first time at Grand Opera House

1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Mississippi)

1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen

1888 Italy &Spain sign military covenant

1892 Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops first manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide

1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging

1896 Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek CO

1896 The first edition of London Daily Mail (½ penny)

1897 Fire in Paris France bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200

1907 Ottawa hit by 19.1 cm snowfall; city's greatest one day May snowfall.

1910 Canadian Currency Act of 1910 receives Royal Assent.

1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy

1910 Parliament votes to create a Royal Canadian Navy.

1910 Tel Aviv founded

1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes

1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb &Germany

1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare

1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv

1919 FVC soccer team forms

1923 Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist &police in Vienna

1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law

1923 On the Alaska Peninsula a 7.1 earthquake happened one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States

1924 8th modern Olympic games open in Paris France

1924 German Republic election fascists &communists win

1925 League of Nations conference on arms control &poison gas usage

1926 General strike hits Britain

1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts &Sciences forms

1927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928

1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded

1927 The first balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL)

1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president

1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary

1932 Mobster Al Capone enters the Atlanta federal penitentary to begin serving a term for income tax evasion

1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)

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