1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres

1917 The first appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal

1918 The first US airmail stamps issued (24¢)

1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)

1926 German Government of Luther falls

1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange

1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk

1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail

1931 Paul Doumer elected President of France

1932 Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar

1934 Great dustbowl storm

1936 Quiroga Government takes office in Spain

1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives

1940 British bomb factory at Breda

1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England

1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie

1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany

1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins

1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland

1942 Helicopter makes its first cross-country flight

1942 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji

1943 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia – end of the North African campaign

1943 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel

1943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender

1943 German occupiers confiscate all radios

1945 Aircraft from fast carrier task force begin 2-day attack on Kyushu airfields, Japan

1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa

1946 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wicket for Indians vs Surrey

1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death

1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam

1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions

1949 The first British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its first test flight later this type of aricaraft was used in the 1982 war in the Falklands

1950 Diner's Club issues its first credit cards

1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India

1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections

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