1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Stith Pemberton invents the flavored syrup for Coca-Cola®

1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki

1896 Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire

1900 250 grave robbers shot to death

1900 Galveston TX, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die

1902 Mount Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000

1907 Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title

1911 Navy ordered its first airplane, Curtiss A-1, Birthday of Naval Aviation

1915 Australian 2nd Brigade and New Zealand Brigade in Battle of Krithia

1915 Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's account of the Gallipoli landing published in Australia

1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes

1919 Appingedam soccer team forms

1921 Sweden abolished capital punishment

1923 Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116 vs Somerset at Bath

1924 Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231" premieres

1924 Memel territories given to Lithuania

1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut

1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco

1926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park

1926 The first flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)

1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean

1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack

1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea

1942 HMS OLYMPUS, sunk off Malta Grand Harbour - German E-boat-laid mines. On passage with personnel from Malta to Gibraltar, including many of the crews of bombed submarines P.36 and P.39; few survivors

1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death

1944 The first eye bank is established in New York City

1944 U-575 sinks Asphodel

1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam

1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet

1945 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin

1945 In Berlin, the unconditional surrender is ratified, marking an end to twelve and a half years of the Nazi Third Reich.

1948 Bradman scores 146 Australia vs Surrey, 174 minutes, 15 fours

1949 West German constitution approved

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