Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 83 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
- World War I: South African troops land in German South-West Africa.
- The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
- Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
- Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
- The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
- Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
- The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
- The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
- World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
- The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
- The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
- World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
- World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
- World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
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- General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
- The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
- The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
- Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
- Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
- Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator’s term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
- Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
- Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
- U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
- Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
- Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
- North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
- The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
- Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
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