Apr 03 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #2194 Arpola, #2512 Tavastia and #3099

Apr 04 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2332 Kalm

Apr 07 Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.

Apr 20 Electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa

Apr 13 Cornelious Warmerdam became the first man to pole vault 15 ft

Apr 23 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)

Apr 15 The birth of Jeffrey Archer, British author

Apr 09 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II

Apr 21 The first $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio

Apr 22 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)

Apr 19 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY

Apr 04 R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher", premieres in NYC

Nov 14 During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England

Nov 01 Prehistoric cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France

Nov 01 The first US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa

Nov 30 First game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2)

Nov 05 Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected to a record third term as President

Nov 30 Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

Nov 26 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto

Nov 18 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb

Nov 22 Terry Gilliam (actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, )

Nov 22 Terry Gilliam (actor Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, )

Nov 07 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash

Nov 11 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100

Nov 13 Walt Disney's"Fantasia" released

Nov 05 President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)

Nov 25 Patria steamer sinks killing 200, outside of Haifa

Nov 06 HMCS Ottawa is sunk by the Italian submarine DiBruno

Nov 20 Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia join Axis.

Nov 12 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)

Nov 06 Roosevelt is elected President. Democrats keep House control.

Sep 15 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe

Sep 03 The first showing of high definition color TV

Sep 16 Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House

Sep 27 Establishment of Berlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis.

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