1865 Victory parade in Washington DC

1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond MO (2 die, $4,000 taken)

1873 Canada establishes the North West Mounted Police force (the "Mounties")

1873 Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for first time

1878 Attorney John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia

1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa

1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal

1898 The first Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Fransisco

1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York

1901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo

1903 The first automobile trip across US from San Fransisco to New York

1903 The first direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin

1908 Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die

1908 Part of the Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound WA

1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft

1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WWI

1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun

1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft

1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curaçao officially opens

1918 SS Moldavia, lost off Littlehampton, Sussex. This P & O ship of 9,500 tons was requisitioned in 1915 and converted to an auxilliary cruiser and commissioned by the British Admiralty. Later she was used as a troopship after the USA joined the war and while carrying troops to France she was torpedoed. Most soldiers were rescued but 56 lost their lives.

1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei

1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" first of over 2,500 performances

1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat

1922 Walt Disney incorporates his first film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

1923 The first flight of Sabena Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain

1926 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate

1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die

1929 Canada's first airborne wedding takes place in a bi-plane over Regina.

1929 First non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes. (and it still takes about 6 hours for the trip)

1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England

1933 Parliament passes Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act; directing the two companies to cooperate during the Depression.

1934 Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana

1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures first nylon (polymeer 66)

1937 John D Rockefeller dies in Ormond Beach, Florida

1939 British decoration, George Cross, first presented

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