1893 The worst economic crisis in U.S. history (to that time) happened on this day. Stock prices plummeted, major railroads went into receivership, 15,000 businesses went bankrupt and 15 to 20 percent of the work force was unemployed. Within seven months, over 600 banks had closed. 1900 "The Billboard", a magazine for the music and entertainment industries, began weekly publication after six years as a monthly 1901 The first Catholic mass for night workers was held at the Church of St. Andrew in New York City.

1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication

1904 Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox tossed a perfect game against the Philadelphia Americans

1905 Robert S Abbott published first issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"

1908 Great White Fleet arrives in San Fransisco

1912 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm Sweden

1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

1915 2nd Australian Brigade and New Zealand Brigade redeployed to Cape Helles, Gallipoli

1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom

1916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed

1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev

1920 US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

1922 Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)

1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike

1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee

1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak

1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"

1930 Bradman scores 185 Australia vs Leicestershire, 317 minutes, 16 fours

1930 The first woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)

1932 Japan & China sign a peace treaty

1935 Jessie Owens of the US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8¼"

1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip

1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa

1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky

1940 Norwegian Government in exile forms in London

1941 2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England

1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa

1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar

1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII

1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System

1944 Gandhi freed from prison

1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim

1945 Denmark liberated from Nazi control

1945 Germans surrender in Norway

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