1915 Attack on Quinn's Post, Gallipoli

1916 Official flag of President of US adopted

1916 The US Presidential Flag is adopted

1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster

1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington

1922 Ecuador becomes independent

1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

1935 Hague local museum opens

1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague Netherlands

1940 HMS WAKEFUL, sunk off Nieuport, Belgium by 1 torpedo from German E-boat S-30.

1940 In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France

1942 Actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60

1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas" greatest selling record to date

1942 HMAS Perth damaged during Crete evacuation

1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)

1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US

1944 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy

1945 US first Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC

1951 The first North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends

1953 The first two individuals to reach the top of Everest were Tensing Norkay of Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand reached the summit on 1953

1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married

1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns

1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators

1957 Laos Government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns

1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels

1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1

1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Garry Moore Show"

1962 Buck O'Neil becomes the first black coach in major league baseball, accepting a job with the Chicago Cubs

1967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1 30 19

1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

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