1908 The first horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago

1914 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota

1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)

1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WWI

1917 SS City of Corinth, sunk by torpedo by the german submarine UB31 in the English Channel 12 miles SW of the Lizard penisular, Cornwall while en-route from Singapore to London with a general cargo

1917 USS Ericsson fires first torpedo of war

1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote

1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley CO

1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is first cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize

1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)

1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun

1925 Canadians allow to beer sales

1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt

1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole

1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after first solo air crossing of Atlantic

1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC

1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers

1931 Belgian Government of Jaspar falls

1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph

1934 Oskaloosa IA, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens

1938 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours

1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France

1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees

1940 Reynaud forms French Government

1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta

1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp

1941 The first US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia

1944 Accidental explosion on board a LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor and the resulting fire and other explosions sink 5 LSTs and 1 other LST.

1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"

1945 Australia Services win first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets

1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1945 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed

1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia

1951 Chinese offensive in Korea collapses

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