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1929  inaugural telephone installed in White House   

1929  1st telephone installed in White House   

1931  Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.   

1931  Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters   

1933  Enabling Act German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers   

1933  Kroll Opera in Berlin opens.   

1934  US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945.   

1936  Italy, Austria and Hungary sign Pact of Rome   

1937  In this year, Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars   

1937  In this year, LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars.   

1937  Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66.   

1938  Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers   

1940  All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland.   

1940  inaugural radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS.   

1940  1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS   

1942  2500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported.   

1942  Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean   

1942  US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers   

1943  German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia   

1943  Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72.   

1944  Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die.   

1944  Nicholas Alkemade falls 5500 meter without a parachute and lives.   

1944  O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash.   

1945  British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine   

1945  Carriers begin pre-assault strikes on Okinawa, kamikaze attacks follow.   

1945  Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen.   

1946  8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40   

1946  Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62.   

1948  John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54492' (18133 m))   

1949  The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.   

1949  Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC.   

1950  22nd Academy Awards "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford and Olivia de Havilland win   

1950  Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government.   

1950  UN World Meteorological Organization established   

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1429  Margaret of anjou: Wife of henry vi of england   

1599  Thomas selle: Composer   

1638  Frederik ruysch: Dutch anatomist   

1645  William kidd: Pirate legend from scotland   

1699  John bartram: Naturalist/explorer, father of american botany   

1723  Agha mohammad khan ghajar: King of iran   

1732  Marie adélaïde of france: Daughter of louis xv   

1736  Iman willem falck: Dutch governor of ceylon (1765-83)   

1103  Death of Eudes i: Duke of burgundy (b. 1058)   

1169  Death of Shirkuh: Kurd general/vizier of cairo/saladin's uncle,   

1237  Jan of brienne: King of jerusalem/emperor of constantinople,   

1361  Henry of grosmont: 1st duke of lancaster (b. c.1310)   

1369  Death of Pedro: The cruel, king/tyrant of castile & leon, murdered   

1548  Death of Itagaki nobukata: Retainer of takeda shingen   

1555  Julius iii: [giovanni m del monte], pope (1550-55),   

1559  Death of Emperor gelawdewos of ethiopia: Emperor gelawdewos of ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)