1921 - Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees 1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) 1925 - German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS) 1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China 1927 - Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors 1930 - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama 1932 - Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60. 1935 - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms 1935 - Japan invades Shanghai, China 1936 - Albanian government of Frasheri falls 1937 - Japanese army conquers Shanghai 1937 - St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP 1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germanys first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. 1939 - Ninotchka, with Greta Garbo premieres 1939 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron) 1939 - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents 1941 - Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster 1942 - German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier 1942 - Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize 1944 - Walcheren purged of nazi troops 1946 - Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze 1949 - Costa Rica adopts Constitution 1950 - Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year 1950 - Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year 1950 - White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930 1953 - Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union 1953 - KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 - Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws 1955 - Michael Gazzos Hatful of Rain, premieres in NYC 1955 - NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca 1955 - UN disapproves of South Africas apartheid politics 1956 - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ 1961 - PGA eliminates caucasians only rule 1961 - Paddy Chayefskys Gideon, premieres in NYC 1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m 1962 - Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 - Tovarich closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances 1963 - 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan) 1964 - Comedy in Music-Opus 2 opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs 1964 - Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan 1965 - 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis 1965 - Hurricane hits north east US/Canada 1965 - Willie Mays named NL MVP 1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965. 1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London 1966 - Lets Sing Yiddish opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs 1966 - Oakland Coliseum Arena opens 1967 - 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module 1967 - Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon 1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1970 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins 1971 - David Storeys Changing Room, premieres in London 1971 - John List kills family & moves to Colorado 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 - Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) 1973 - Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support 1973 - Ringo Starr releases Ringo album 1976 - Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career 1976 - UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1977 - Reds George Foster wins NL MVP 1978 - NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions 1980 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran 1980 - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1982 - Brewers Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously 1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time 1983 - Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped 1983 - Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center 1984 - 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B 1984 - Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1984 - Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43 1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial (3 Servicemen) completed 1985 - News closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances 1985 - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion 1985 - Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba 1985 - Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed 1986 - Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1986 - Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore 1988 - Prince of Central Park opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs 1988 - MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7) 1989 - East Berlin opens its borders 1990 - Tanzania government of Malecela forms 1990 - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal. 1991 - Houstons Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts 1992 - Howard Sterns radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI) 1992 - Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for Texaco 1993 - Cinderella opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances 1993 - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died 1993 - Stari Most (the old bridge, built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing. 1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka 1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered. 1995 - Danny Gans on Broadway opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC 1997 - Cherry Orchard, closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC 1997 - Scarlet Pimpernel, opens at Minskoff Theater NYC 1997 - Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship 1997 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup 1997 - Toray Japan Queens Cup 1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. 1999 - TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident. 2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people. 2004 - Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios 2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people. 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 2009 - Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Pokers main event. 2012 - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space 2012 - 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma 2012 - An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
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