1910 England replaces King Edward VII stamp series with King George V

1910 King George V ascends to British throne

1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania

1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage

1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont

1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland

1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa

1916 First ship-to-shore radio telephone voice conversation from USS New Hampshire off Virginia Capes to SECNAV Josephus Daniels in Washington, DC

1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German Southwest Africa to South Africa

1933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

1935 British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee

1937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst NJ (36 die, captured on film and radio live)

1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)

1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)

1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia

1942 CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China

1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies

1943 British first army opens assault on Tunis

1945 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands

1945 German troops north of Italy surrender to General Devers of the U.S. 7th Army division.

1945 Naval landing force evacuates 500 Marshallese from Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands

1945 Tarakan town and airstrip captured

1950 Liz Taylor's first marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)

1954 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3 59 4)

1955 West Germany joins NATO

1957 Italian Government of Segni resigns

1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV

1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)

1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships

1960 England's Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)

1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta

1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed in México

1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy

1962 First nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)

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