Mar 13 The British army ceases using the lance as an official weapon

Mar 24 Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian &Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty

Mar 07 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan

Mar 02 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)

Mar 24 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie

Mar 07 San Fransisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated

Mar 26 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA

Mar 08 Pan American Airlines incorporates

Mar 11 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York NY)

Mar 10 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian &Slovenes

Mar 05 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property

Mar 07 In Tango, Japan a 7.9 earthquake resulted in 3,020 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

Mar 11 The first golden gloves tournament

Mar 11 The Flatheads Gang was responsible for the first armored-car robbery -- near Pittsburgh, PA. It was reported that $104,250 was taken in the heist.

Mar 01 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank

Mar 17 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

Mar 26 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms

Mar 21 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee

Mar 10 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches

Mar 01 The birth of Harry Belafonte, American singer

Mar 29 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; first auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)

Mar 27 The birth of Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor

Mar 05 US Marines land in China to protect American property during a civil uprising.

Mar 19 Bloody battles between communists &Nazis in Berlin

Aug 13 The birth of Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

Aug 23 Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston for murdering two men during a 1920 robbery. (They were posthumously exhonerated in 1977.)

Aug 06 The third Toronto Union Station is opened officially by Edward, Prince of Wales. It was opened to the public on August 11, but passengers had to walk across to the old station tracks. The first day on which trains used the new, elevated, tracks through the new station platform was January 31, 1930.

Aug 04 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened

Aug 27 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens

Sep 17 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco

Sep 24 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs

Sep 16 Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Assn title

Sep 07 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF

Sep 22 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)

Sep 10 France wins its 1st Davis Cup

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