1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Fransisco

1904 St Louis hosts the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States

1904 The first Olympics in the US are held (St Louis)

1905 2nd official international soccer match, Netherlands beats Belgium 4-0

1906 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising

1908 The first passenger flight in an airplane

1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins

1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands

1921 Florence Allen is first woman judge to sentence a man to death

1921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats

1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie

1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg

1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York

1935 Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US

1935 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement

1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3

1940 Admiral Furstner departs to England

1940 German breakthrough at Sedan

1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production

1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany

1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

1942 The Women's Auxilliary Army Corps (WACS) is established

1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded

1943 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast The ship was crewed by members of the Australian merchant navy and only 64 of the 333 on board survived

1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol

1944 British troops occupy Kohima

1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stülpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

1946 The House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians

1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's first broadcast

1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel

1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition

1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

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