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1913
Dec 27
1913 • In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president. |
1914
Jan 4
Age: 8d
1914 • Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the University of Chicago. |
1920
Jan 7
Age: 6y
1920 • Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect. |
1930
Age: 15y
1930 • Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany. |
1932
Jun 6
Age: 18y
graduationSeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Graduated from Holy Angels Academy |
1932 • The first Purple Heart was awarded. |
1940
Age: 25y
1940 • First free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter. |
1941
Feb 8
Age: 27y
marriageHarold Erving Fisher Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1942
Feb 14
Age: 28y
birth of childJames Edward Fisher Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
1942 • WWII: St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot) – British Commandos raid Saint-Nazaire on the coast of Western France to put its dockyard facilities out of action. |
1943
Apr 21
Age: 29y
birth of childJean Marie Fisher Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
1943 • WWII: Battle of Tarawa: United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati from 1979) and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns. |
1945
Apr 5
Age: 31y
birth of childCarole Arlene Fisher Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
1945 • Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the People's Front win a deciding majority (85%) in the Yugoslavian assembly. |
1949
Apr 18
Age: 35y
birth of childPatricia Louise Fisher Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
1949 • The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television. |
1950
Apr 13
Age: 36y
1950 • The Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas. |
2005
Aug 10
Age: 91y
2005 • The referendum on the new proposed Iraqi constitution is held. |
2005
Aug 13
burialShoreline, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Buried at Holyrood Catholic Cemetery |
2005 • The Pakistan Army opens fire on insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first armed uprising since General Rahimuddin Khan's stabilization of the province in 1978. |