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1917
Feb 12
| 1917 • WWI: The Military Service Act is passed in the Canadian House of Commons, giving the Government of Canada the right to conscript men into the army. |
1920
Jan 2
Age: 2y
| 1920 • Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse race first run in Paris. |
1930
Apr 8
Age: 13y
| 1930 • Canadian adventurer William "Red" Hill, Sr., makes a five-hour journey down the Niagara Gorge rapids. |
1940
Apr 16
Age: 23y
| 1940 • WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces. |
1940
Jun 23
Age: 23y
birth of childToinette Earlene Williams Boise, Idaho, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • Japan enters French Indochina: an agreement is signed in which Japan promises to station no more than 6,000 troops there, and never have more than 25,000 transiting the colony. Rights were also given for three airfields. |
1983
Jul 20
Age: 66y
marriageJames C Richardson Reno, Nevada, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1983 • A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany. |
1992
Age: 74y
| 1992 • The South Korean presidential election is won by Kim Young-sam, the first non-military candidate elected since 1961. |
1998
Jul 8
Age: 81y
| 1998 • A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War. |