1875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000

1879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English

1881 World's first elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)

1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver British Columbia

1891 George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam

1909 In North Dakota a 5.5 quake occurred, the largest historical earthquake in the state

1910 US Bureau of Mines forms

1911 Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf

1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome

1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull

1922 White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage

1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

1929 The first-ever Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

1930 6th Walker Cup US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2

1936 62nd Preakness George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1 59

1936 The first British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France

1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta GA)

1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six

1938 The first animal breeding society forms (New Jersey)

1939 Food stamps are first issued

1940 Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers

1940 Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris

1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia

1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)

1942 The first transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma

1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw

1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting

1943 Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7,000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30,000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6,000 have perished in flames.

1943 RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)

1944 Military police attack gypsies

1944 Rabbi Weissmandl sends out pleas to bomb camp and rail lines - based on his "Auschwitz Protocol" - a 31 page report from escapees' eyewitness accounts of Rudolph Verba and Alfred Wetzler.

1944 The first of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1945 9th Division lands at Brunei

1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa

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