Page 6: Historical Events In January - 11
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course). 

1936 Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives. 

1938 Frances Moulton elected inaugural woman president of a US national bank. 

1938 Bradman scores a second innings 113 v Qld after a ton in the 1st. 

1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet premieres in Leningrad 

1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton. 

1942 -23ºF (-31ºC), Kingston RI (state record). 

1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. 

1942 -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record) 

1943 US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China 

1943 Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered 

1944 Aircraft from USS Block Island make inaugural aircraft rocket attack on German submarine. 

1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established. 

1944 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies 

1946 Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself dictator 

1946 Bert Bell is recorded as becoming 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Phila. 

1949 Snowfall inaugural recorded in Los Angeles 

1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles. 

1950 Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77. 

1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore. 

1952 Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61. 

1953 J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club. 

1953 Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53 

1954 A two ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche - 10 die (Austria) 

1954 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria) 

1954 Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77. 

1955 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72. 

1957 Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent arrives in Egypt with men and supplies for the UN emergency force; Canadian strength in Egypt now about 1000 men 

1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar. 

1958 Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges as crusty frogman and good guy Mike Nelson, debuts on CBS-TV. 

1958 Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65 

1959 Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then inaugural class world record 

1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke 

1959 Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6000 yr old pyramid, dies 

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