1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname

1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Netherlands

1897 Battle at Thessalië Turkish army beats Greece

1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters

1900 Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed

1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city

1901 President McKinley visits San Fransisco

1902 United Mine Workers leader John Mitchell leads his 147,000 anthracite coal workers out of the pits to begin a 5-month strike that cripples the United States

1908 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married" premieres in London

1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield

1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250

1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week"

1921 National Hospital Day first observed

1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics

1926 British general strike ends

1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared

1926 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is first vessel to fly over the North Pole

1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy

1928 Opium laws enforced

1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)

1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)

1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ

1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, first appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney

1932 The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, NJ

1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers

1934 "Cocktails For Two" by Duke Ellington hits #1

1937 Coronation of Edward, former Duke of Windsor, as king of England.

1937 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Britain are crowned at Westminster Abbey

1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

1940 French mariners occupy St Maarten

1940 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug

1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River

1941 British forces attempt to break out of Tobruk

1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz

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