1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia

1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms

1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)

1913 The Actors' Equity Association is organized

1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England

1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia

1918 Kyarra, torpedoed by a German submarine UB57 2 miles off Anvil Point off the Dorset coast while on a voyage from London to Sydney with a general cargo. 6 lives were lost.

1922 Lenin suffers a stroke

1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg

1924 German Government of Marx resigns

1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration)

1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery

1926 Lebanon adopts constitution

1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile

1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution

1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo

1932 Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act passed, providing for establishment of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.

1933 2nd emergency Dutch Government of Colijn forms

1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago

1935 Police kill 10, wound 100 in the "Memorial Day Massacre" in South Chicago.

1936 The first Government of Zealand in Belgium ends

1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms

1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens

1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work

1940 HMS CURLEW (AA), sunk in Lavangs Fiord, Ofotfiord near Narvik, northern Norway by German Ju88 bombers.

1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk

1940 The "Miracle of Dunkirk" evacuation begins in France during World War II

1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia

1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck

1941 German occupiers begin youth labor

1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London

1942 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star

1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim African corps vs British army

1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam

1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa

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