1907 Bank of San Fransisco incorporated

1910 Glacier National Park is established (Montana, USA)

1910 Montana's Glacier National Park forms The park borders the Cdn. Waterton National Park in Canada

1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

1917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand

1921 Tel Aviv is first all Jewish municipality

1924 Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election

1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)

1925 Communist Party of Holland splits

1925 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR

1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for first air crossing of Arctic Ocean

1927 Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer

1927 Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

1928 General Electric opens first TV-station (Schenectady NY)

1929 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin TX

1929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)

1929 The first regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)

1931 Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe

1940 New York World's Fair reopens

1941 The first Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England

1942 German submarine U-S53 torpedoes British steamer Nicoya and Dutch ship Leno near Anticosti Island, Quebec

1942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa

1943 Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders

1943 Naval task force lands Army troops on Attu, Aleutians.

1943 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)

1944 Allied forces launch a major offensive in central Italy

1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office washer

1944 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison

1945 US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa

1945 Wewak in New Guinea captured by Australia's 6th Division

1946 The first packages from the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, or CARE, arrive in Europe at Le Havre, France

1947 BF Goodrich manufactures first tubeless tire, Akron OH

1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy

1948 Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa

1948 Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy

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