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1931  Piccard and Knipfer make inaugural flight into stratosphere, by balloon; inaugural use of pressurized cabin in a balloon.   

1931  The inaugural full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA.   

1931  1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va.   

1933  Austrian communist party banned.   

1933  Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago.   

1933  Federal Securities Act signed   

1933  The Academy-Award-winning animated short The Three Little Pigs, is released by young animator Walt Disney.   

1933  Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released.   

1934  Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam street hawker, dies.   

1935  Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional   

1935  The U S Supreme Court strikes down the National Industrial Recovery Act.   

1935  Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional   

1936  Lou Gossett Jr, American film actor is born.   

1936  The Queen Mary, sailing for the Cunard line, left England on its maiden voyage.   

1936  RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage.   

1937  Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated   

1937  In this year, Carl Hubbell claims his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)   

1938  Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so.   

1938  Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of Eng season, earliest to do so   

1939  Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44.   

1940  British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)   

1940  The evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins.   

1941  Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta.   

1941  FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor.   

1941  German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force   

1941  The German battleship 'Bismark' is sunk off the coast of France.   

1941  AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76   

1942  Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor   

1942  Hitler orders 10000 Czechoslovakians murdered   

1942  Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim.   

1942  Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague.   

1943  French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris   

1943  US forbids racial discrimination in war industry.   

1944  Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)   

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1332  Ibn khaldun: Tunis, arab historian/sociologist (muqaddimah)   

1519  Girolamo mei: Italian historian   

1576  Caspar schoppe: German scholar   

1595  Benedictus carpzovius: [benedikt carpzov], german lawyer   

1601  Antoine daniel: Jesuit missionary and martyr   

1623  William petty: English scientist and philosopher   

1626  William ii: Prince of orange/stadholder   

1651  Louis-antoine: Cardinal de noailles, french cardinal   

0366  Procopius: Roman usurper (b. 326)   

0735  Bede: English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)   

0866  Ordono i: King of asturia (850-66),   

0927  Death of Symeon: Czar of bulgaria ( -927)   

1039  Dirk iii hierosolymita: Count of holland,   

1178  Godfried van rhenen: Bishop of utrecht,   

1444  John beaufort: 1st duke of somerset, english military leader (b. 1404)   

1508  Death of Ludovico sforza [il moro]: Italian duke of milan,