Feb 16 Patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree

Feb 20 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China

Feb 21 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin

Feb 14 South Africa all out for 36 in first innings vs Australia (Ironmonger 5-6)

Feb 15 3rd Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid NY

Feb 15 US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)

Feb 25 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

Feb 22 Purple Heart award re-instituted

Feb 13 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"

Feb 09 America enter Olympics 2-man bobsled competition for first time

Feb 07 The birth of Gay Talese, American actor.

Feb 04 Lake Placid, NY hosts the first Winter Olympics. Lake Placid would reprise this role in 1980.

Feb 04 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria

Feb 27 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)

Feb 06 Fascist coup in the Memel territory

Feb 09 US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing NY)

Feb 11 73ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February

Feb 12 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees

Feb 15 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time

Feb 08 The birth of John Williams, US film score writer

Apr 04 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good", premieres in NYC

Apr 10 The birth of Omar Sharif, Egyptian born actor

Apr 28 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced

Apr 01 Ford introduced its new offering: the high-performance Ford V-8, the first Ford with an 8-cylinder engine.

Apr 30 RCMP absorbs provincial police force of New Brunswick due to near bankruptcy of the province.

Apr 04 Vitamin C first isolated, C.C. King, Univ of Pittsburgh

Apr 01 The RCMP absorbs provincial police forces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Alberta.

Apr 02 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son

Apr 05 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions

Apr 01 Ford introduced its new offering the high-performance Ford V-8, the first Ford with an 8-cylinder engine.

Apr 27 The birth of Anouk Aimee, French actress

Apr 01 The birth of Debbie Reynolds, American actress

Apr 04 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C C King, University of Pittsburgh

Apr 28 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1242 Zambesia

Apr 10 Paul von Hindenburg elected first German president (Hitler is 2nd)

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