1885 Canadian Méti insurgent Louis Riel captured, Saskatchewan

1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established

1891 Operations begin at Philips & Company in Holland

1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas

1902 Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola

1905 Las Vegas, Nevada is founded

1905 Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville

1907 Toronto Ontario, plumbers go on four-month strike nobody plug the toilet!!!!!

1911 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill

1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates

1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)

1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended

1916 Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front

1918 Greek troops lands at Smyrna

1918 The first regular airmail service (between New York, Philadelphia & Washington DC) inaugurated

1923 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms

1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

1928 Mickey Mouse made his first appearance

1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland OH)

1930 Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (United airlines, San Francisco to Cheyenne, WY)

1933 The first voice amplification system to be used in US Senate

1934 Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive

1934 Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia

1936 Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4 days 16 hours

1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium

1940 German armour division moves into Northern France

1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders

1940 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)

1940 Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (US)

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris France

1940 The first successful helicopter flight in US Vought-Sikorsky US-300

1941 British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya

1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music

1941 Rumania passes law condemning Jews to forced labor.

1941 The first British turbojet flies

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