1923 US unemployment has nearly ended

1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal

1926 US Customs Court created by congress

1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days

1928 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged

1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand

1934 Bradman gets 160 Australia vs Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5

1934 Hobbs scores his 197th & last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days

1934 The Dionne quintuplets (Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne) are born at the family farm in Ontario, Canada

1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic

1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England

1937 San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens to vehicular traffic

1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid

1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up

1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway only to give it up later

1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta

1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich

1943 British militia reaches Tito

1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement

1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's assistant of Utrecht

1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV

1953 Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"

1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus

1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1958 French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle

1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts

1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission

1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)

1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY

1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day

1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio

1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die & 1 million houses destroyed

1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes first PM of Kenya

1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet

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