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1920  Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who).   

1921  Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)   

1923  British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy   

1923  British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy.   

1924  Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier.   

1924  John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 and 4, 1 for 24), dies   

1925  Greece is recorded as becoming a republic when King George is deposed.   

1931  Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama   

1931  Hal Kemp and his Orch record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis   

1934  1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith claims, shooting a 284   

1935  1st Belgium government of Van Zealand steps down.   

1936  200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground   

1937  It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25000 per year for ads   

1937  Italy and Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)   

1937  Lionel Conacher misses on inaugural Stanley Cup penalty shot   

1937  Washington Daily News is inaugural US newspaper with perfumed advertising page.   

1937  John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54   

1938  1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase.   

1939  Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart.   

1940  Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51.   

1941  Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated   

1942  700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp.   

1942  R and B vocalist Aretha Franklin born this day   

1943  Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio.   

1943  97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration.   

1944  Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome   

1944  RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18000 feet without a parachute   

1945  US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau and Aschaffenburg   

1945  US inaugural army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen   

1945  US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa.   

1945  US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen.   

1946  The XHJD-1, the inaugural twin engined helicopter, made a hovering flight. Designed for the Navy by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.   

1946  1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto".   

1947  Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia   

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1133  Henry ii: King of england (1154-89)   

1252  Konradijn hohenstaufen: [koenrad van zwaben], son of konrad iv   

1252  Conradin: Duke of swabia   

1259  Andronikos ii palaiologos: Byzantine emperor   

1297  Andronicus iii palaeologus: Byzantine emperor   

1297  Arnost of pardubice: Archbishop of prague   

1345  Blanche of lancaster: Wife of john of gaunt   

1347  Catherine of siena: Italian saint   

1223  Death of Afonso ii: 3rd king of portugal (1211-23),   

1345  Death of Henry: 3rd earl of lancaster, english politician (b. 1281)   

1458  Death of Inigo lopez de mendoza: Spanish marquis of santillana/poet,   

1510  Death of Georges d'amboise: French archbishop of narbonne/rouen,   

1558  Marcos de niza: French franciscan explorer   

1561  Death of Conrad lycosthenes: French-born german philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)   

1603  Ikoma chikamasa: Japanese warlord (b. 1526)   

1609  Olaus martini: Swedish archbishop of uppsala (b. 1557)