1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid

1926 Richard Byrd &Floyd Bennett make first flight over North Pole

1927 Australian Parliament first convenes in new capital, Canberra

1932 Piccadilly Circus, first lit by electricity

1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike

1936 First KLM airplane to land on Bonaire

1936 Italy takes Addis Ababa, annexing Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1939 Catholic church beatified the first Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha

1941 English Army breaks German spy codes

1943 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia

1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens

1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana

1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested

1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol

1944 The first eye bank opens (NYC)

1945 Channel Island, Jersey liberated from Nazis

1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

1945 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

1945 Norwegian Nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested

1945 Victory celebration at Red Square

1946 King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto

1949 Britain's first launderette opens in Queensway London

1949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco

1950 French Foreign minister Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration

1950 Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville

1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River

1955 German Federal Republic joins NATO

1958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship

1960 Nigeria becomes a member of the British Commonwealth

1960 US is first country to use the birth control pill legally

1960 US send U-2 over USSR

1962 Beatles sign their first contract with EMI Parlophone

1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for first time

1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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