1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded

1893 Heavy rain washes "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)

1896 First automobile (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands

1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards

1900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago

1902 Great Britain &Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria

1905 Italian King Victor Emmanuel &Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Iselle Italy &Brig Switzerland

1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes

1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier

1912 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

1912 Navy establishes North Atlantic Ice Patrol following RMS Titanic disaster

1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land

1915 Australians repel major Turkish attack on their positions at Gallipoli

1915 Death on Gallipoli of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick of "Simpson and his donkey" fame

1915 Lance Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF, becomes the first Australian to win a Victoria Cross in World War One for his action at Gallipoli, Turkey

1916 Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun

1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies

1926 French air force bombs Damascus Syria

1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather PA coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners

1928 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)

1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death

1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government

1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa

1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel

1934 Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria

1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; Males who solved puzzle become members of Baker Street Irregulars

1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact

1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)

1940 French counter attack at Péronne under General De Gaulle

1940 HMS WHITLEY, lost between Nieuport and Ostend, Belgium - damaged by German bombers and beached.

1941 German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis

1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland

1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)

1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan

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