1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic

1911 President/dictator José Porfirio Diaz of México term ends

1912 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies

1915 Major General Sir William Bridges, Commander of the First Division, Australian Imperial Force (AIF), dies of wounds inflicted at Anzac Cove on 15 May His body is buried in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon

1916 US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft

1917 US passes Selective Service act

1918 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia

1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200

1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours)

1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice CA; She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped

1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston

1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams

1934 Academy Award first called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)

1934 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act", makes kidnapping a capital offense

1934 TWA begins commercial service

1935 T E Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, dies in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash

1940 German troops conquer Brussels

1940 Nazis pierce French lines on 62-mile front.

1941 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia

1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead

1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea

1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in an address to the U S Congress, pledges full support in the war against Japan

1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy

1948 Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus

1948 Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel

1949 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates

1951 UN moves HQ to NYC

1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea

1952 Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC

1953 The first woman to break the sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)

1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1955 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya NM (state record)

1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza take West Indies from 6-187 to 6-494 in day vs Australia

1955 Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam

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