1918 Battle of Aisne

1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

1919 Navy NC-4 completes trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Lisbon, Portugal

1919 The fist transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days

1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR

1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty

1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president

1929 2nd Ryder Cup Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England

1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape

1931 Piccard & Knipfer make first flight into stratosphere, by balloon; first use of pressurized cabin in a balloon

1931 The first full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA

1933 Austrian communist party banned

1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago

1933 Federal Securities Act signed

1933 The Academy-Award-winning animated short The Three Little Pigs, is released by young animator Walt Disney

1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional

1935 The U S Supreme Court strikes down the National Industrial Recovery Act

1936 The Queen Mary, sailing for the Cunard line, left England on its maiden voyage

1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated

1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so

1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta

1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered

1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague

1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris

1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry

1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)

1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China

1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid

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