1917
Jun 29
| 1917 • WWI: Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back. |
1920
Age: 2y
| 1920 • The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard. The newspaper has to recant publicly on July 17, 1969 when the Apollo crew is on its mission to the Moon. |
1930
Age: 12y
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residenceSeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ He is living with adopted mother Mary (Bardasona) Howard, and her second husband Roy Cook. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1930 • German election, 1930: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party. |
1940
Age: 22y
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residenceTrafton Election Precinct, Snohomish, Washington, USA ⇓ He is living with his adopted mother Mary (Bardasona) Howard, and her second husband Roy E Cook. They have been married ten years. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1940 • WWII: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the people of Italy, blames Benito Mussolini for leading his nation to war against the British, contrary to Italy's historic friendship with them: "One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians." |
1940
Oct 28
Age: 23y
| 1940 • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is placed under the Federal Security Agency. |
1946
Feb 4
Age: 28y
birth of childPatricia Marie Howard Sedro-Woolley, Skagit, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1946 • Ankara University is founded in Turkey. |
1987
Apr 26
Age: 69y
| 1987 • Lynne Cox swims between the Diomede Islands from the American Little Diomede Island to the Soviet Big Diomede Island. |