1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School

1906 10th anniversary of Olympics, celebration held in Athens, Greece

1906 Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane

1907 Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Middlesex vs Somerset

1909 The first San Fransisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched

1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)

1916 French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun

1923 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier

1926 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1

1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop

1927 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed

1927 Near Xining, China a 8.3 quake caused 200,000 deaths. One of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

1928 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act

1931 Canned rattlesnake meat first goes on sale in Florida I'll pass thanks

1933 John Mackay makes the first reported sighting of the Loch Ness Monster

1933 Loch Ness Monster is first reportedly sighted by John Mackay

1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day first celebrated

1939 Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"

1940 Decision to form 8th Division of AIF

1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis

1940 Nazis at Channel trap the Allies at Belgium.

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1941 British troops attack Baghdad

1941 Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the first of two Victoria Crosses on Crete

1942 México declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan

1943 RAF scatters first copies of "The Flying Hollander"

1943 Stalin disbands Komintern

1943 The first jet fighter is tested

1944 Two new RCN torpedo boat flotillas start operating off coast of France.

1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa

1945 Barin Road, Solomons, cleared

1945 NSB-Führer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide

1947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece

1947 The first US ballistic missile fired

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