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1916  Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) The ACF coordinated the activities of the various State "patriotic funds" set up in 1914 to collect money to send comfort parcels to service personnel overseas.   

1916  Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian   

1917  Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ).   

1918  Sgt. Samuel Forsyth, NZ Engineers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Grevillers, France   

1918  Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)   

1918  Ray McIntire, chemical engineer   

1919  Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning.   

1919  "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Dutch songwriter/singer   

1921  Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece   

1921  Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver   

1922  1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams).   

1923  Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2).   

1923  Helena Carter, [Helen Rickerts], US model/actress (River Lady)   

1923  Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66   

1924  Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante and Teicher-Exodus).   

1925  39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62).   

1927  Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist   

1928  A subway wreck occurs under Times Square in New York City.   

1929  43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62).   

1931  France and USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty   

1932  Amelia Earhart is recorded as becoming the inaugural woman to fly across the U.S. nonstop, completing a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ   

1932  The inaugural transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart   

1932  1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart.   

1936  Australian Antarctic Territory created.   

1937  Republican offensive near Belchite Spain   

1938  England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval   

1939  Germany and USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact.   

1939  Germany and Russia sign a 10-year non-agression pact.   

1939  Last man hanged in New South Wales axe murderer John Trevor Kelly   

1939  W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies   

1939  Last man hanged in New South Wales: axe murderer John Trevor Kelly   

1940  Luftwaffe bombs London   

1940  Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80   

1942  Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands.   

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1113  Geoffrey plantagenet: France, conquered normandy   

1113  Geoffrey of anjou: Count of anjou   

1198  King alexander ii of scotland: King alexander ii of scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  Floris iv: Count of holland   

1358  King john i of castile: King john i of castile (d. 1390)   

1393  Arthur iii: Duke of brittany   

1420  Albrecht van eyb: German humanist/parson (bamberg & eichstattt)   

1531  Ercole bottrigari: Composer   

0079  Pliny the elder: Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  Death of Magnus iii berbein: [blootbeen], king of norway (1093-1103),   

1217  Death of Eustace "the monk": French buccaneer,   

1313  Henry vii: Roman catholic german king/emperor (1308/12-13),   

1371  Death of Eduard: Duke of gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Death of Girolamo francesco maria mazzola: Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  Death of Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  Gaspard de châtillon: Count the coligny, french gen/admiral, beheaded