...Date... AGE Event
1904/--/-- -1 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- -1 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- -1 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- -1 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- -1 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- -1 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- -1 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- -1 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- -1 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- -1 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/05/01 0 *** Benson, Roy Lee - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1904/12/27 0 *** Benson, Ella Frances [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie) Lincoln County, Tennessee
1905/--/-- 0 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 0 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 0 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 0 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 0 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 0 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 0 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 0 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 0 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 0 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 0 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 0 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 0 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 0 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 0 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 0 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 0 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 0 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 0 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/10/-- 1 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1906/--/-- 1 - British author John Galsworthy publishes the first novel of The Forsythe Saga.
1906/--/-- 1 - H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 1 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traverses the Northwest Passage.
1906/--/-- 1 - The Aga Khan III forms the All-India Moslim League.
1906/--/-- 1 - The Dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 1 - The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 1 - Under the Platt Amendment U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 1 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle leads to the U.S. Pure Foods and Drugs Act.
1906/05/20 2 *** Benson, Bonnie Sue [Sister] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1906/10/-- 2 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1907/--/-- 2 - A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia.
1907/--/-- 2 - Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
1907/--/-- 2 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge writes The Playboy of the Western World.
1907/--/-- 2 - Lee De Forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 2 - Oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the Union.
1907/--/-- 2 - Rasputin gains influence at the court of Russian emperor Nicholas II.
1907/--/-- 2 - The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
1907/--/-- 2 - The first Ziegfeld Follies are staged in New York City.
1907/01/12 2 *** Benson, Emma Louisa [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie) New Market, Alabama
1907/10/-- 3 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (0)
1907/10/06 3 *** Benson, Glendon Lucile [Sister] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1908/--/-- 3 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 3 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 3 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- 3 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- 3 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- 3 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 3 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 3 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 3 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- 3 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- 3 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- 3 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- 3 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 3 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- 3 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- 3 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- 3 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- 3 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/08/03 4 *** Faulkner, Louisa Jane [Grandmother] - Died Kelso, Lincoln, TN Kelso, Lincoln, TN Benson Cemetery
1908/10/-- 4 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1908/12/22 4 *** Benson, Raymond [Brother] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) New Market, Madison, Alabama
1909/--/-- 4 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 4 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 4 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 4 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 4 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 4 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 4 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 4 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 4 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 4 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/05/16 5 *** Sumners, Nancy Nurline [Wife] - Born
1909/06/01 5 *** Benson, Raymond [Brother] - Died New Market, Madison, Alabama New Market, Madison, Alabama
1909/10/-- 5 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 5 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 5 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 5 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 5 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 5 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 5 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 5 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 5 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 5 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 5 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 5 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 5 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 5 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 5 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 5 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/03/01 5 *** Benson, Marvin McKinley [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie) New Market, Alabama
1910/05/-- 5 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/09/10 6 *** Benson, Malda Leona [Sister] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) New Market, Madison, Alabama
1910/10/-- 6 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/--/-- 6 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 6 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 6 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 6 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 6 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 6 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 6 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 6 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 6 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 6 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 6 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 6 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 6 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 6 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 6 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 6 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 6 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 6 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/02/16 6 *** Benson, Floyd Herman [Brother] - Died Kelso, Tennessee Kelso, Tennessee Kelso, Tennessee
1911/06/02 7 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 7 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1912/--/-- 7 - American Indian Jim Thorpe wins the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 7 - American author Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1912/--/-- 7 - American writer Willa Cather publishes her first novel Alexander's Bridge.
1912/--/-- 7 - Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 7 - Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler publishes The Neurotic Constitution.
1912/--/-- 7 - British explorers under Scott reach the South Pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 7 - French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase.
1912/--/-- 7 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 7 - Morocco is divided between France and Spain after the second Moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 7 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 7 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 7 - Piltdown man is discovered in Britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 7 - Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky choreographs and dances in The Afternoon of the Faun.
1912/--/-- 7 - The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
1912/--/-- 7 - The liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 7 - Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the U.S. presidency under the Bull Moose ticket.
1912/07/04 8 *** Benson, Fred Carlyle [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie)
1912/10/-- 8 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL BOSTON (4)
1912/10/27 8 *** Benson, Willis Daniel [Brother] - Born to Benson, Richard James and Speck, Hortense (Hortie) Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee
1913/--/-- 8 - American poet Robert Frost publishes A Boy's Will.
1913/--/-- 8 - Bertrand Russell and A.E. Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica.
1913/--/-- 8 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 8 - English novelist D.H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers.
1913/--/-- 8 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913/--/-- 8 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring causes a scandal at the Paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 8 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 8 - King George I of Greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by Constantine I
1913/--/-- 8 - Marcel Proust writes the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
1913/--/-- 8 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at Lambarene in Africa.
1913/--/-- 8 - Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 8 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille.
1913/--/-- 8 - Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb found the political journal The New Statesman.
1913/--/-- 8 - The constructivism art movement begins in Russia.
1913/--/-- 8 - The island of Crete is united with Greece.
1913/--/-- 8 - The second Balkan War begins with a Bulgarian attack on Serbia.
1913/--/-- 8 - Victoriano Huerta leads a military coup in Mexico; president Francisco Madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 8 - Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president; Marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 8 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1913/10/-- 9 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1914/--/-- 9 - A British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton is marooned in the Antarctic.
1914/--/-- 9 - A German fleet defeats the British at Coronel but is decimated at the Falklands.
1914/--/-- 9 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating World War I.
1914/--/-- 9 - Austrian forces invade Serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 9 - Black composer W.C. Handy writes the St. Louis Blues.
1914/--/-- 9 - Charlie Chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 9 - France, Russia and Britain (the Allies) are at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1914/--/-- 9 - George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 9 - German forces invade Belgium and France but are halted at the Marne.
1914/--/-- 9 - German submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on Allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 9 - Japan joins the Allies and captures the German base of Tsingtao in China.
1914/--/-- 9 - Mack Sennett produces comedy films starring the Keystone Kops.
1914/--/-- 9 - Parisian couturier Coco Chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 9 - President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality in World War I.
1914/--/-- 9 - Russian forces invade East Prussia but are defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 9 - The Panama Canal is completed, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1914/--/-- 9 - Turkey declares war on the Allies; Britain annexes Turkish Cyprus.
1914/--/-- 9 - U.S. Marines land at Veracruz in Mexico; President Huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 9 - World War I begins
1914/04/06 9 *** Benson, Rosa Mae [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie)
1914/10/-- 10 - World Series NL BOSTON (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (0)
1915/--/-- 10 - A German submarine torpedoes the British liner Lusitania; 124 Americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 10 - Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
1915/--/-- 10 - Anglo-French forces land at Gallipoli in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 10 - Austrian writer Franz Kafka publishes The Metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 10 - D. W. Griffith's movie The Birth of a Nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 10 - Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa lead rebellions against Venustiano Carranza in Mexico.
1915/--/-- 10 - English author Somerset Maugham publishes Of Human Bondage.
1915/--/-- 10 - German Zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on Britain.
1915/--/-- 10 - Italy joins the Allies and invades Austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 10 - President Wilson recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza.
1915/--/-- 10 - Serbia is overrun by the combined forces of Austria, Germany and Bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 10 - The Anzacs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) fight at Gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 10 - The Dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 10 - The Germans use poison gas for the first time at Ypres on the Western Front.
1915/--/-- 10 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 10 - War poet Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/10/-- 11 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1916/--/-- 11 - Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
1916/--/-- 11 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli after strong Turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 11 - American poet Carl Sandburg publishes his first book Chicago Poems.
1916/--/-- 11 - British forces assault the German line at the Somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 11 - German assaults at Verdun are repulsed by the French with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 11 - James Joyce publishes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1916/--/-- 11 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
1916/--/-- 11 - Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 11 - Margaret Sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 11 - North Sea storms flood lowlands in the Netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 11 - T. Tzara DADA
1916/--/-- 11 - The British and German fleets clash at the Battle of Jutland.
1916/--/-- 11 - The Easter Rising in Dublin is suppressed within a week by the British.
1916/--/-- 11 - The Russian Brusilov Offensive meets with success on the Eastern Front.
1916/--/-- 11 - The Trans-Siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 11 - U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 11 - U.S. troops under Pershing invade Mexico in retaliation for raids by Pancho Villa.
1916/10/-- 12 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL BOSTON (4)
1917/--/-- 12 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- 12 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- 12 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 12 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 12 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 12 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- 12 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- 12 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- 12 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- 12 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- 12 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 12 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- 12 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- 12 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- 12 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- 12 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- 12 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- 12 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- 12 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- 12 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 12 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- 12 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- 12 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- 12 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 12 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- 12 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- 12 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 12 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/09/07 13 *** Benson, Vernon (Jack) [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie)
1917/10/-- 13 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1918/--/-- 13 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 13 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 13 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 13 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 13 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 13 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 13 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 13 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 13 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 13 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 13 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 13 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 13 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 13 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 13 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 13 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 13 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 13 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 13 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/04/13 13 *** Benson, Roy Edgar (Eddie) [1st cousin] - Died
1918/10/-- 14 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
1919/--/-- 14 - Boxer Jack Dempsey knocks out Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 14 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1919/--/-- 14 - English aviators Alcock and Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 14 - French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 14 - George Gershwin composes his first hit song Swanee.
1919/--/-- 14 - German communist Rosa Luxemburg is murdered after the Sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 14 - Italian leader Benito Mussolini organizes his Fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 14 - Jan Smuts succeeds Louis Botha as prime minister of South Africa.
1919/--/-- 14 - Lady Astor becomes the first woman member of the British House of Commons.
1919/--/-- 14 - League of Nations
1919/--/-- 14 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 14 - Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to the Soviet Union.
1919/--/-- 14 - The Bauhaus school of design is founded in Germany by Walter Gropius.
1919/--/-- 14 - The Chicago White Sox conspire to fix the baseball World Series.
1919/--/-- 14 - The German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1919/--/-- 14 - The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 14 - The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles.
1919/--/-- 14 - The Polish-Soviet War begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 14 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
1919/--/-- 14 - Versailles Peace Treaty
1919/--/-- 14 - World War I ends
1919/10/-- 15 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (5) AL CHICAGO (3)
1919/11/04 15 *** Benson, Vera Alice (Sis) [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, William Bradford Alexander and Omohundro, Margaret (Maggie)
1920/--/-- 15 *** Speck, Belle [Aunt] - Died
1920/--/-- 15 - 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 15 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 15 - A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
1920/--/-- 15 - Admiral Miklos Horthy is appointed regent of Hungary.
1920/--/-- 15 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 15 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
1920/--/-- 15 - American tennis star Bill Tilden wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 15 - Arturo Alessandri becomes president of Chile.
1920/--/-- 15 - British East Africa becomes a crown colony as Kenya.
1920/--/-- 15 - Chaim Weizmann is named president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920/--/-- 15 - Dutch artist Piet Mondrian paints the Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
1920/--/-- 15 - French Art Deco glassmaker Rene Lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 15 - German East Africa is transferred to British control as Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
1920/--/-- 15 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British rule in India.
1920/--/-- 15 - Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is deposed and killed by Alvaro Obregon.
1920/--/-- 15 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first Hercule Poirot story.
1920/--/-- 15 - Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 15 - The 18th Amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the U.S.
1920/--/-- 15 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 15 - The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 15 - The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920/09/16 16 *** Little, Alice Bessie [1st cousin] & Benson, Richard Oscar [Brother] - Married
1920/10/-- 16 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL CLEVELAND (5)
1921/--/-- 16 - Alexander rules the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1921/--/-- 16 - American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 16 - Berber tribes under Abd el-Krim attack garrisons in Spanish Morocco.
1921/--/-- 16 - French cubist artist Fernand Leger paints Three Women.
1921/--/-- 16 - German surrealist artist Max Ernst paints L'Elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 16 - Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president; Coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 16 - Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 16 - Latin lover Rudolph Valentino stars in the silent film The Sheik.
1921/--/-- 16 - Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced.
1921/--/-- 16 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary Mexican life.
1921/--/-- 16 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created by Royal Charter.
1921/--/-- 16 - The Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Britain.
1921/--/-- 16 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 16 - W. L. MacKenzie King is elected prime minister of Canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 16 - Warren G. Harding (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1921/10/-- 17 - World Series NL NEW YORK (5) AL NEW YORK (3)
1921/10/15 17 *** Benson, Clyde Little [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Truscott, Knox,Texas
1922/--/-- 17 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot writes The Waste Land.
1922/--/-- 17 - Constantine I abdicates as king of Greece; is succeeded by George II.
1922/--/-- 17 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 17 - Egypt achieves independence from Britain and becomes a monarchy under Fuad I.
1922/--/-- 17 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home.
1922/--/-- 17 - English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 17 - English composer William Walton composes Facade.
1922/--/-- 17 - Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 17 - Irish poet and novelist James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
1922/--/-- 17 - Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 17 - Kemal Ataturk's attempts to restore Turkish territory leads to the Chanak Crisis.
1922/--/-- 17 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922/--/-- 17 - Robert Flaherty produces the first major film documentary Nanook of the North.
1922/--/-- 17 - The Fascists march on Rome; King Victor Emmanuel III names Mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 17 - William T. Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1922/10/-- 18 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1923/--/-- 18 - "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 18 - Adolf Hitler's coup d'etat in Munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 18 - Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt opens a factory in Germany.
1923/--/-- 18 - American poet E. E. Cummings writes the novel The Enormous Room.
1923/--/-- 18 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine Time.
1923/--/-- 18 - Calvin Coolidge (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1923/--/-- 18 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 18 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
1923/--/-- 18 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to enforce German war reparations.
1923/--/-- 18 - General Miguel Primo de Rivera rules as dictator of Spain.
1923/--/-- 18 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 18 - Italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 18 - Jewish philosopher Martin Buber publishes Ich und Du (I and Thou).
1923/--/-- 18 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary Space.
1923/--/-- 18 - Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 18 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 18 - The Treaty of Lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern Turkey.
1923/--/-- 18 - Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 18 - Turkey is declared a republic; Ataturk Kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 18 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 18 - Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
1923/08/31 19 *** Benson, Glendon Ora [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Gilliland, Knox, Texas
1923/10/-- 19 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1924/--/-- 19 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My Battle).
1924/--/-- 19 - Arab leader Ibn Saud drives the Hashimites from Mecca.
1924/--/-- 19 - English novelist E.M. Forster publishes A Passage To India.
1924/--/-- 19 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 19 - German novelist Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain.
1924/--/-- 19 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
1924/--/-- 19 - Ramsay MacDonald forms the first Labour government in Britain.
1924/--/-- 19 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 19 - Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 19 - The Boston Bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 19 - The military declare a republic in Greece; King George II is exiled.
1924/--/-- 19 - U.S. Congress investigates suspicious dealings in the Teapot Dome scandal.
1924/10/-- 20 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL WASHINGTON (4)
1925/--/-- 20 - Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925/--/-- 20 - American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1925/--/-- 20 - American writer John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1925/--/-- 20 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 20 - Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation.
1925/--/-- 20 - Black American dancer Josephine Baker stars in La Revue negre in Paris.
1925/--/-- 20 - Clarence Birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 20 - Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
1925/--/-- 20 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 20 - Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as shah of Iran.
1925/--/-- 20 - Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin.
1925/--/-- 20 - Swiss-born artist Paul Klee paints Fish Magic.
1925/--/-- 20 - The Locarno Pact finalizes the treaties between the World War I protagonists.
1925/--/-- 20 - The New Yorker magazine is founded in New York City.
1925/--/-- 20 - The all-black revue Runnin' Wild introduces the Charleston dance craze.
1925/09/15 21 *** Benson, Richard Edgar [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Gomez, Terry, Texas
1925/10/-- 21 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL WASHINGTON (3)
1926/--/-- 21 - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe paints her flower portrait Black Iris.
1926/--/-- 21 - American golfer Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open and the British Open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 21 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 21 - Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona becomes president after a military coup in Portugal.
1926/--/-- 21 - Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926/--/-- 21 - Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926/--/-- 21 - English author A.A. Milne writes the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh.
1926/--/-- 21 - French troops in Morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by Abd el-Krim.
1926/--/-- 21 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926/--/-- 21 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1926/--/-- 21 - Nobile, Amundsen and Ellsworth pilot the airship Norge over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 21 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first airplane flight over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 21 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich premiers his First Symphony.
1926/--/-- 21 - The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 21 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is organized in Chicago.
1926/--/-- 21 - U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/10/-- 22 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1927/--/-- 22 - American dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 22 - American writer Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
1927/--/-- 22 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.
1927/--/-- 22 - Blackface singer Al Jolson appears in the first sound motion picture The Jazz Singer.
1927/--/-- 22 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 22 - Civil war in China
1927/--/-- 22 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting Pants on Philip.
1927/--/-- 22 - Dancer Martha Graham opens her first dance studio in New York City.
1927/--/-- 22 - Duke Ellington's jazz band stars at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York City.
1927/--/-- 22 - English novelist Virginia Woolf writes To The Lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 22 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designs the Turun Sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 22 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 22 - German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927/--/-- 22 - German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse publishes Steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 22 - Helen Newington Wills wins the Wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 22 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 22 - The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927/10/-- 23 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1928/--/-- 23 *** Benson, baby Stillborn [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie
1928/--/-- 23 *** Benson, baby Stillborn [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1928/--/-- 23 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 23 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 23 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 23 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 23 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 23 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 23 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 23 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 23 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 23 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 23 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 23 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 23 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 23 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 23 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 23 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 23 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 23 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 23 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/10/-- 24 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1929/--/-- 24 - Alexander institutes absolute rule as king of Yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 24 - American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1929/--/-- 24 - American novelist William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury.
1929/--/-- 24 - British poet Robert Graves publishes his war memoir Goodbye To All That.
1929/--/-- 24 - Erich Maria Remarque publishes his war novel All Quiet On the Western Front.
1929/--/-- 24 - Ernest Hemingway writes the war novel A Farewell To Arms.
1929/--/-- 24 - French artist and writer Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles.
1929/--/-- 24 - Heinrich Himmler is appointed head of the SS, Hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 24 - Herbert C. Hoover (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1929/--/-- 24 - Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st U.S. president; Curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 24 - Jews and Arabs clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 24 - Seven Chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
1929/--/-- 24 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
1929/--/-- 24 - Stock Market crashes
1929/--/-- 24 - The Lateran Treaty creates the independent state of the Vatican City.
1929/--/-- 24 - The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is founded in New York City.
1929/--/-- 24 - The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 24 - The Workers Party of America is renamed the Communist Party of the United States.
1929/--/-- 24 - The first Academy Awards are presented; Wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 25 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/--/-- 25 - American artist Edward Hopper paints Early Sunday Morning.
1930/--/-- 25 - American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.
1930/--/-- 25 - American poet Hart Crane publishes The Bridge.
1930/--/-- 25 - Artist Grant Wood paints American Gothic.
1930/--/-- 25 - British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 25 - Carol II is proclaimed king of Romania.
1930/--/-- 25 - Dashiell Hammett publishes the detective novel The Maltese Falcon.
1930/--/-- 25 - English-born American writer W. H. Auden publishes his Poems.
1930/--/-- 25 - Getulio Vargas is appointed president of Brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 25 - Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 25 - Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's film The Blue Angel.
1930/--/-- 25 - Noel Coward's play Private Lives is produced in London.
1930/--/-- 25 - The British airship R101 crashes in France.
1930/--/-- 25 - The city of Constantinople is re-named Istanbul.
1930/--/-- 25 - Vannevar Bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 25 - Worldwide depression begins
1930/10/-- 26 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/10/31 26 *** Benson, Alcie Mae [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1930/11/13 26 *** Benson, Alcie Mae [1st cousin once removed] - Died Brownfield, Terry, Texas Brownfield, Terry, Texas Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1931/--/-- 26 - American cartoonist Chester Gould creates the adventure comic strip Dick Tracy.
1931/--/-- 26 - American journalist and writer Damon Runyon publishes Guys and Dolls.
1931/--/-- 26 - American writer Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth.
1931/--/-- 26 - Auguste Piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 26 - Ben Shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 26 - Chicago gangster Al Capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 26 - Explorer George Hubert Wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the Arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 26 - Japanese forces occupy Manchuria.
1931/--/-- 26 - Lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 26 - Organic chemist W. H. Carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 26 - Radio astronomy begins when Karl Jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 26 - Spain is declared a republic; King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
1931/--/-- 26 - The Empire State Building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 26 - The Star-Spangled Banner becomes the U.S. national anthem.
1931/10/-- 27 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (3)
1932/--/-- 27 - American physicist Carl D. Anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 27 - American sculptor Alexander Calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 27 - American southern author Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road.
1932/--/-- 27 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of Portugal.
1932/--/-- 27 - Arab leader Ibn Saud founds the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1932/--/-- 27 - British author Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World.
1932/--/-- 27 - Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 27 - Eamon de Valera is elected president of the Republic of Ireland.
1932/--/-- 27 - Engelbert Dollfuss is elected chancellor of Austria.
1932/--/-- 27 - English physicist James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 27 - Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt pledges a New Deal.
1932/--/-- 27 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
1932/--/-- 27 - Revolution in Siam (Thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 27 - Sir Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
1932/--/-- 27 - The Bonus Army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in Washington, D.C.
1932/--/-- 27 - The Royal Shakespeare Theater opens at Stratford-on-Avon, England.
1932/--/-- 27 - The first particle accelerator is built at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.
1932/09/22 28 *** Benson, Roy Lee [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1932/10/-- 28 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1933/--/-- 28 - A fossilized skull of the prehistoric Steinheim man is found in Germany.
1933/--/-- 28 - Actor Charles Laughton stars in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII.
1933/--/-- 28 - Busby Berkeley choreographs the dances for the film Gold Diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 28 - Dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in the film Flying Down to Rio.
1933/--/-- 28 - Edwin Armstrong invents frequency modulation (FM) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 28 - Fiorello La Guardia is elected mayor of New York City for the first time.
1933/--/-- 28 - Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history.
1933/--/-- 28 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1933/--/-- 28 - French novelist and political activist Andre Malraux publishes Man's Fate.
1933/--/-- 28 - Fulgencio Batista leads a military coup against Gerardo Machado y Morales in Cuba.
1933/--/-- 28 - Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 28 - Joseph Goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the Nazi party.
1933/--/-- 28 - Mae West stars in the films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.
1933/--/-- 28 - Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling founds the National Unity party.
1933/--/-- 28 - President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany.
1933/--/-- 28 - Roosevelt begins "New Deal"
1933/--/-- 28 - Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. president; Garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 28 - The 21st Amendment ends the prohibition era in the U.S.
1933/--/-- 28 - The Marx Brothers star in the classic comedy film Duck Soup.
1933/--/-- 28 - The National Recovery Administration (NRA) is launched by President Roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 28 - The Nazis erect the first concentration camps in Germany.
1933/--/-- 28 - The Public Works Administration (PWA) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 28 - The Reichstag fire gives the Nazis a pretext for outlawing the German Communist party.
1933/--/-- 28 - The Stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in France.
1933/10/-- 29 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL WASHINGTON (1)
1933/10/08 29 *** Little, Janie Maud [1st cousin] - Died
1934/--/-- 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes "Fueher" of Germany
1934/--/-- 29 - Alexander, king of Yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son Peter II succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 29 - American cartoonist Al Capp begins the comic strip Li'l Abner.
1934/--/-- 29 - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is murdered by Austrian Nazis.
1934/--/-- 29 - Cole Porter writes the score for the Broadway musical Anything Goes.
1934/--/-- 29 - Drought leads to severe dust storms in the Dust Bowl region of the Great Plains.
1934/--/-- 29 - Elijah Muhammad becomes leader of the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims).
1934/--/-- 29 - Fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 29 - George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein found The School of American Ballet.
1934/--/-- 29 - Henry Miller publishes the Tropic of Cancer. (It is banned in the U.S. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 29 - Hitler becomes Fuhrer (leader) of Germany after Hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 29 - John Dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the FBI.
1934/--/-- 29 - Lazaro Cardenas is chosen by Plutarco Calles as president of Mexico.
1934/--/-- 29 - Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 29 - Mao Tse-tung leads the Chinese Communists on the Long March.
1934/--/-- 29 - Naturalist Charles W. Beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 29 - SA leader Ernst Roehm is assassinated on the orders of Hitler.
1934/--/-- 29 - Surrealist artist Rene Magritte paints The Human Condition.
1934/--/-- 29 - The British ocean liner Queen Mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 29 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 29 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is formed to protect U.S. investors.
1934/09/29 30 *** Little, Daniel Edgar [1st cousin] - Died info. in the Star Telegram, Fort Worth, info. in the Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas newspaper
1934/10/-- 30 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1935/--/-- 30 - American writer Thomas Wolfe publishes Of Time and the River.
1935/--/-- 30 - Arthur Dempster discovers U-235, the isotope of uranium used in atomic bombs.
1935/--/-- 30 - Child film actress Shirley Temple stars in The Little Colonel.
1935/--/-- 30 - Controversial Louisiana senator Huey P. Long is assassinated.
1935/--/-- 30 - Eduard Benes succeeds Tomas Masaryk as president of Czechoslovakia.
1935/--/-- 30 - Errol Flynn stars in the swashbuckling adventure film Captain Blood.
1935/--/-- 30 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs The 39 Steps.
1935/--/-- 30 - George Gershwin composes the modern American opera Porgy and Bess.
1935/--/-- 30 - Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935/--/-- 30 - Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1935/--/-- 30 - King of Swing Benny Goodman forms the Benny Goodman Trio.
1935/--/-- 30 - Leni Riefenstahl directs the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.
1935/--/-- 30 - Physicist Hideki Yukawa predicts the existence of the meson subatomic particle.
1935/--/-- 30 - Robert Sherwood's play The Petrified Forest is produced.
1935/--/-- 30 - Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt patents the first practical radar system.
1935/--/-- 30 - Social Security Act provides retirement insurance
1935/--/-- 30 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina.
1935/--/-- 30 - The Monopoly board game is patented in the U.S.
1935/--/-- 30 - The Moscow subway is opened.
1935/--/-- 30 - The Nuremberg Racial Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
1935/--/-- 30 - The monarchy is restored in Greece under George II.
1935/07/19 31 *** Benson, girl Stillborn [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Benson, Richard Oscar and Little, Alice Bessie Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1935/08/02 31 *** Little, Alice Bessie [1st cousin] - Died Brownfield, Terry, Texas Brownfield, Terry, Texas Brownfield, Terry, Texas
1935/10/-- 31 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL DETROIT (4)
1936/--/-- 31 - Black athlete Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.
1936/--/-- 31 - Boulder Dam is completed in Arizona (it is renamed Hoover Dam in 1947).
1936/--/-- 31 - Edward VIII abdicates as king of Great Britain; he is succeeded by George VI.
1936/--/-- 31 - HItler and Mussolini announce the Rome-Berlin Axis (alliance).
1936/--/-- 31 - Henry R. Luce begins publishing Life magazine.
1936/--/-- 31 - Ioannis Metaxas establishes a dictatorship in Greece.
1936/--/-- 31 - Italy and Germany send military forces and aid to support Franco in Spain.
1936/--/-- 31 - Italy annexes Abyssinia (Ethiopia); Emperor Haile Selassie is exiled.
1936/--/-- 31 - Japan concludes the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany.
1936/--/-- 31 - John Maynard Keynes writes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
1936/--/-- 31 - Margaret Mitchell publishes her only novel Gone With the Wind.
1936/--/-- 31 - Olympic ice skater Sonja Henie turns professional.
1936/--/-- 31 - Spanish Civil War
1936/--/-- 31 - Stalin begins the Great Purge of Soviet Russia's political and military leadership.
1936/--/-- 31 - The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) begins the first public television service.
1936/--/-- 31 - The Soviet Union and the International Brigades support the Nationalists in Spain.
1936/--/-- 31 - The Spanish Civil War begins when General Franco leads a military revolt.
1936/--/-- 31 - The works of the composer Dmitry Shostakovich are denounced in Russia.
1936/01/-- 31 - Edward VIII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1936/10/-- 32 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1936/12/10 32 - George VI succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the abdication of E
1937/--/-- 32 - American author John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men.
1937/--/-- 32 - Anastasio Somoza Garcia becomes president of Nicaragua.
1937/--/-- 32 - Aviatrix Amelia Earhart is lost during a flight across the Pacific.
1937/--/-- 32 - Ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn debuts in Giselle at Sadler's Wells, London.
1937/--/-- 32 - Danish author Isak Dinesen publishes her autobiography Out of Africa.
1937/--/-- 32 - Dow Chemical develops plastics
1937/--/-- 32 - English writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the fantasy novel The Hobbit.
1937/--/-- 32 - Farouk succeeds Fuad I as king of Egypt.
1937/--/-- 32 - Frank Lloyd Wright begins building the Taliesin West complex in Arizona.
1937/--/-- 32 - French filmmaker Jean Renoir directs Grand Illusion.
1937/--/-- 32 - German aircraft supporting Franco's forces destroy the town of Guernica in Spain.
1937/--/-- 32 - Joe Louis the Brown Bomber wins the heavyweight boxing championship.
1937/--/-- 32 - Nationalist and Communist forces unite to combat the Japanese in China.
1937/--/-- 32 - Neville Chamberlain succeeds Stanley Baldwin as prime minister of Britain.
1937/--/-- 32 - Swing bandleader Artie Shaw records Begin the Beguine.
1937/--/-- 32 - The Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII) marries the divorcee Mrs. Simpson.
1937/--/-- 32 - The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J.
1937/--/-- 32 - The Golden Gate Bridge is opened in San Francisco.
1937/--/-- 32 - The Japanese invasion of China begins the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937/05/02 33 - George VI crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Cosm
1937/10/-- 33 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1938/--/-- 33 - A coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the cost of Africa.
1938/--/-- 33 - American composer Aaron Copland writes the ballet score for Billy the Kid.
1938/--/-- 33 - American singer Ella Fitzgerald records A-tisket, A-tasket.
1938/--/-- 33 - British prime minister Neville Chamberlain declares "peace for our time."
1938/--/-- 33 - Chamberlain and Daladier appease Hitler at the Munich Conference.
1938/--/-- 33 - Chester Carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic dry-copying process.
1938/--/-- 33 - Don Budge becomes the first player to win the Grand Slam (4 tennis championships).
1938/--/-- 33 - General Franco isolates the Republican forces in Spain and attacks Catalonia.
1938/--/-- 33 - German chemist Otto Hahn discovers the principles of nuclear fission.
1938/--/-- 33 - Germany occupies the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
1938/--/-- 33 - Hitler invades Austria; a union (Anschluss) of Austria and Germany is proclaimed.
1938/--/-- 33 - Hungarian Lajos Biro invents the first practical ball-point pen.
1938/--/-- 33 - Ismet Inonu succeeds Kemal Atuturk as president of Turkey.
1938/--/-- 33 - Jewish property is attacked in Germany in the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
1938/--/-- 33 - Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud flees to England to escape Nazi persecution.
1938/--/-- 33 - Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds causes panic in the U.S.
1938/--/-- 33 - Swing musician Glenn Miller organizes his band.
1938/--/-- 33 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates U.S. subversives.
1938/--/-- 33 - The U.S. and Britain send aid to the Chinese in their war against Japan.
1938/--/-- 33 - Thornton Wilder wins the Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town.
1938/--/-- 33 - Walt Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown.
1938/10/-- 34 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1939/--/-- 34 - American author Nathanael West publishes The Day of the Locust.
1939/--/-- 34 - American novelist John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.
1939/--/-- 34 - An Anglo-Saxon burial ship is excavated at Sutton Hoo in England.
1939/--/-- 34 - Britain and France declare war on Germany but are unable to aid Poland.
1939/--/-- 34 - Child film actress Judy Garland stars in the musical The Wizard of Oz.
1939/--/-- 34 - Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in the film Gone With the Wind.
1939/--/-- 34 - English author Christopher Isherwood publishes Goodbye to Berlin.
1939/--/-- 34 - Foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- 34 - General Franco's forces capture Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
1939/--/-- 34 - Germany and Italy form the Pact of Steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- 34 - Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.
1939/--/-- 34 - Igor Sikorsky develops America's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- 34 - Italian forces occupy Albania; King Zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- 34 - Physical chemist Linus Pauling publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
1939/--/-- 34 - President Roosevelt (prompted by Einstein) orders a U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- 34 - President Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality in World War II.
1939/--/-- 34 - Robert Gordon Menzies succeeds Joseph Lyons as prime minister of Australia.
1939/--/-- 34 - Soviet troops invade Poland; Germany and the USSR partition the country.
1939/--/-- 34 - Swiss chemist Paul Muller discovers the chemical insecticide DDT.
1939/--/-- 34 - The He 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in Germany.
1939/--/-- 34 - The Russo-Finnish War begins with the Soviet invasion of Finland.
1939/--/-- 34 - The first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- 34 - World War II begins
1939/01/18 34 *** Benson, Glendon Lucile [Sister] & Stack, Edward Paul - Married
1939/07/04 35 *** Stack, Thomas Edward [Nephew] - Born to Stack, Edward Paul and Benson, Glendon Lucile Akron, Summit, Ohio
1939/10/-- 35 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1940/--/-- 35 - American novelist Carson McCullers publishes The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
1940/--/-- 35 - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in the film Road to Singapore.
1940/--/-- 35 - British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevents the German invasion of England.
1940/--/-- 35 - Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in the film The Philadelphia Story.
1940/--/-- 35 - Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls.
1940/--/-- 35 - Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 35 - General Charles de Gaulle rallies Free French resistance in London.
1940/--/-- 35 - German forces reach Paris; Vichy France under Marshal Petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 35 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Allied forces aid Norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 35 - Italian forces invade Egypt but are repulsed; the British invade Libya.
1940/--/-- 35 - Italy declares war on the Allies and invades southern France.
1940/--/-- 35 - Japan joins the Axis alliance and occupies northern French Indochina (Vietnam).
1940/--/-- 35 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates; Romania and Hungary join the Axis forces.
1940/--/-- 35 - Prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at Lascaux in France.
1940/--/-- 35 - Radar wins Battle of Britian
1940/--/-- 35 - Raymond Chandler publishes the detective novel Farewell, My Lovely.
1940/--/-- 35 - The British expeditionary force is evacuated from Dunkerque in France.
1940/--/-- 35 - The German army begins a blitzkrieg attack on Holland, Belgium, and France.
1940/--/-- 35 - The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
1940/--/-- 35 - The Tacoma Narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 35 - Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister after Chamberlain resigns.
1940/10/-- 36 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1941/--/-- 36 - A British task force sinks the German pocket battleship Bismarck.
1941/--/-- 36 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 36 - Benchley Park computers sabotage German Enigma
1941/--/-- 36 - Churchill and Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 36 - German U-boats inflict heavy losses on British shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic.
1941/--/-- 36 - German paratroopers land on Crete and capture the island from the British.
1941/--/-- 36 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes Mother Courage and Her Children.
1941/--/-- 36 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece; British forces are evacuated to Crete.
1941/--/-- 36 - Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1941/--/-- 36 - Gutzon Borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at Mount Rushmore.
1941/--/-- 36 - Ho Chi Minh organizes the Viet Minh to combat the Japanese in Indochina.
1941/--/-- 36 - Japanese forces capture Hong Kong and invade Malaya and the Philippines.
1941/--/-- 36 - Karsh's photographic portrait of Churchill becomes a symbol of British resistance.
1941/--/-- 36 - Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to England on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 36 - Orson Welles directs the film Citizen Kane.
1941/--/-- 36 - President Roosevelt talks of Four Freedoms in his State of the Union speech.
1941/--/-- 36 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 36 - The German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel begins an offensive in North Africa.
1941/--/-- 36 - The German Blitz, the nighttime bombing of London, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 36 - The German advance on Moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 36 - The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; America enters World War II.
1941/--/-- 36 - The Japanese occupy Indochina and move into Cambodia (Kampuchea) and Thailand.
1941/--/-- 36 - The Lend-Lease Act allows the transfer of U.S. war materials to Britain and China.
1941/--/-- 36 - The U.S. freezes Japanese assets in retaliation for Japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 36 - U.S. troops occupy Iceland to forestall its occupation by Germany.
1941/09/11 37 *** Benson, Richard Oscar [Brother] - Died Seagraves, Terry, Texas Seagraves, Terry, Texas Old Brownfield Cemetery, Terry, Texas
1941/10/-- 37 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1942/--/-- 37 - A Russian counterattack isolates the Sixth Army at Stalingrad; Hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 37 - A U.S. fleet defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Midway.
1942/--/-- 37 - Actor James Cagney wins an Academy Award for the film Yankee Doodle Dandie.
1942/--/-- 37 - American B-25 bombers make the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
1942/--/-- 37 - American and Filipino forces retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1942/--/-- 37 - American crooner Bing Crosby records the hit song White Christmas.
1942/--/-- 37 - American forces in the Philippines surrender; the Bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 37 - American humorist James Thurber publishes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
1942/--/-- 37 - French writer Albert Camus publishes The Stranger.
1942/--/-- 37 - Gandhi is arrested after the Quit India movement demands a British withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 37 - General MacArthur is ordered to the leave the Philippines; he vows I shall return.
1942/--/-- 37 - German forces occupy Vichy France; the French fleet is scuttled in Toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 37 - Hitler proposes the Final Solution of the Jewish Question; the Holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 37 - Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the classic film Casablanca.
1942/--/-- 37 - Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti directs his first film Ossessione.
1942/--/-- 37 - Manhattan Project scientists under Fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 37 - Rommel's Africa Corps capture Tobruk and drive the British back to Egypt.
1942/--/-- 37 - The British Eighth Army under Montgomery begins a new drive into Libya.
1942/--/-- 37 - The German advance in the Caucasus is halted at Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
1942/--/-- 37 - The German advance on Egypt is halted at the Battle of El-Alamein.
1942/--/-- 37 - The Japanese conquer Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Burma.
1942/--/-- 37 - The RAF makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the German city of Cologne.
1942/--/-- 37 - The Soviet southern offensive is halted; the Germans advance on the Caucasus.
1942/--/-- 37 - The U.S. government transfers 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 37 - U.S. Marines invade Guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 37 - U.S. forces under General Eisenhower invade Morocco and Algeria.
1942/--/-- 37 - V-2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) rockets are tested at Peenemunde in Germany.
1942/10/-- 38 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (1)
1942/12/29 38 *** Benson, Eliza Frances [Aunt] - Died Lived there about 7 years. Lived there about 7 years. Tenn.
1943/--/-- 38 - American aircraft join the RAF in round the clock bombing of Germany.
1943/--/-- 38 - American author Carson McCullers publishes The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
1943/--/-- 38 - American writer Ayn Rand publishes The Fountainhead.
1943/--/-- 38 - Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Casablanca to plan their war strategy.
1943/--/-- 38 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference.
1943/--/-- 38 - French existentialist writer Jean Paul Sartre publishes Being and Nothingness.
1943/--/-- 38 - French writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir publishes She Came to Stay.
1943/--/-- 38 - German paratroopers rescue Mussolini.
1943/--/-- 38 - Marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents the Aqualung (scuba).
1943/--/-- 38 - Marshal Badoglio signs an armistice with the Allies; Italy declares war on Germany.
1943/--/-- 38 - Mussolini is deposed; Marshal Badoglio assumes power in Italy.
1943/--/-- 38 - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma! is produced.
1943/--/-- 38 - Robert Oppenheimer establishes the Los Alamos laboratory to build the atomic bomb.
1943/--/-- 38 - Singer Paul Robeson stars in the title role of the Broadway production of Othello.
1943/--/-- 38 - The Allied armies invade Sicily.
1943/--/-- 38 - The Allies invade the southern tip of Italy.
1943/--/-- 38 - The British and American armies link up in Africa; 250,000 Axis prisoners are taken.
1943/--/-- 38 - The German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad; 100,000 are taken prisoner.
1943/--/-- 38 - The Germans suppress a revolt by Polish Jews; the Warsaw ghetto is destroyed.
1943/--/-- 38 - The Russian offensive reaches the Dnepr River; Kiev and Smolensk are recaptured.
1943/--/-- 38 - The Russians defeat the Germans at Kursk in the largest tank battle in history.
1943/01/14 38 *** Stack, Richard Glenn [Nephew] - Born to Stack, Edward Paul and Benson, Glendon Lucile Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
1943/10/-- 39 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1944/--/-- 39 - A British airborne landing at Arnhem in the Netherlands is repulsed by the Germans.
1944/--/-- 39 - Aaron Copland composes the ballet Appalachian Spring.
1944/--/-- 39 - Allied D-Day invasion forces land at Normandy in northern France.
1944/--/-- 39 - Allied forces break out from the Normandy enclave and liberate Paris.
1944/--/-- 39 - Allied forces in Italy land behind the German Gustav Line at Anzio.
1944/--/-- 39 - American aircraft from the Marianas begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1944/--/-- 39 - American forces under General Mark Clark occupy Rome.
1944/--/-- 39 - An Allied invasion force lands in southern France.
1944/--/-- 39 - British forces begin the reconquest of Burma from the Japanese.
1944/--/-- 39 - British forces occupy Athens and intervene in a communist inspired civil war.
1944/--/-- 39 - Child film actors Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor star in National Velvet.
1944/--/-- 39 - Communist resistance fighters under Josip Broz-Tito liberate Yugoslavia.
1944/--/-- 39 - English writer Somerset Maugham publishes The Razor's Edge.
1944/--/-- 39 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson dies from an accidental drug overdose.
1944/--/-- 39 - French novelist Colette writes Gigi.
1944/--/-- 39 - German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1944/--/-- 39 - Normandy landings
1944/--/-- 39 - Oswald Avery determines that DNA is the hereditary material of the cell.
1944/--/-- 39 - Polish resistance fighters are defeated by the Germans in the Warsaw Uprising.
1944/--/-- 39 - Romania and Bulgaria sign an armistice with the Allies and declare war on Germany.
1944/--/-- 39 - Roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term; Truman becomes vice-president.
1944/--/-- 39 - Soviet forces cross the Romanian border and reconquer the Crimea.
1944/--/-- 39 - Soviet forces reach the suburbs of Warsaw in Poland.
1944/--/-- 39 - Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie is produced.
1944/--/-- 39 - The G.I. Bill of Rights is established to provide assistance to war veterans.
1944/--/-- 39 - The German army launches the Battle of the Bulge, its last counteroffensive.
1944/--/-- 39 - The Soviet's relieve the city of Leningrad after a German siege lasting 890 days.
1944/--/-- 39 - The U.S. First Army occupies Aachen -- the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1944/--/-- 39 - The World Bank is established to assist European postwar recovery.
1944/--/-- 39 - U.S. Marines invade Guam and Saipan in the Marianas.
1944/--/-- 39 - U.S. forces under Admiral Nimitz defeat a Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1944/--/-- 39 - V-1 (and later the V-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against London.
1944/05/25 40 *** Benson, Nancy Sue [Daughter] - Born to Benson, Roy Lee and Sumners, Nancy Nurline Akron, Summit, Ohio
1944/10/-- 40 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL ST. LOUIS (2)
1945/--/-- 40 - Advancing Allied armies discover Nazi extermination camps.
1945/--/-- 40 - Allied forces cross the Rhine and begin the final assault on Germany.
1945/--/-- 40 - British actor Laurence Olivier wins critical acclaim for his portrayal of Richard III.
1945/--/-- 40 - British author George Orwell publishes the satirical fable Animal Farm.
1945/--/-- 40 - Charlie "Bird" Parker and Dizzy Gillespie make the first bebop recordings.
1945/--/-- 40 - Churchill is defeated in the British elections by Labour leader Clement Attlee.
1945/--/-- 40 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference.
1945/--/-- 40 - Churchill, Truman and Stalin hold the last wartime conference at Potsdam.
1945/--/-- 40 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen form the Arab League.
1945/--/-- 40 - French dramatist Jean Giraudoux writes the play The Madwoman of Chaillot.
1945/--/-- 40 - General MacArthur heads the U.S. occupation forces in Japan.
1945/--/-- 40 - German jet aircraft are unable to prevent mass Allied air attacks.
1945/--/-- 40 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
1945/--/-- 40 - German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun continues his research in the U.S.
1945/--/-- 40 - Germany and Austria are divided between the Allies into 4 zones of occupation.
1945/--/-- 40 - Harry S. Truman (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1945/--/-- 40 - Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker; Germany surrenders to the Allies.
1945/--/-- 40 - Ho Chi Minh proclaims the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1945/--/-- 40 - Indonesian nationalists led by Sukarno proclaim the nation independent.
1945/--/-- 40 - Japan signs an armistice with the Allies, ending World War II.
1945/--/-- 40 - Korea is divided between U.S. and Soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
1945/--/-- 40 - Marshal Zhukov's Soviet troops launch the final attack on Berlin.
1945/--/-- 40 - Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
1945/--/-- 40 - Nationalists and Communist forces resume their civil war in China.
1945/--/-- 40 - Roberto Rosselini's neorealist "Open City"
1945/--/-- 40 - Romulo Betancourt becomes president of Venezuela for the first time.
1945/--/-- 40 - Roosevelt dies; Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd U.S. president.
1945/--/-- 40 - Singer Frank Sinatra stars in the film musical Anchors Aweigh.
1945/--/-- 40 - Suicide attacks by Japanese kamikaze pilots are unable to stem the U.S. advances.
1945/--/-- 40 - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
1945/--/-- 40 - The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1945/--/-- 40 - The United Nations is formed; Trygve Halvdan Lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
1945/--/-- 40 - The trial of Nazi war criminals begins at Nuremberg in Germany.
1945/--/-- 40 - Tito becomes head of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1945/--/-- 40 - U.S. A-bombs Japan
1945/--/-- 40 - U.S. Marines invade the Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
1945/--/-- 40 - U.S. forces under MacArthur liberate the Philippines.
1945/--/-- 40 - United Nations formed
1945/--/-- 40 - World War II ends
1945/10/-- 41 - World Series NL CHICAGO (3) AL DETROIT (4)
1946/--/-- 41 - American author Robert Penn Warren publishes All the King's Men.
1946/--/-- 41 - Communists abolish the monarchy in Bulgaria; Georgi Dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- 41 - Dr. Spock publishes The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care.
1946/--/-- 41 - ELAS communist forces begin a civil war in Greece.
1946/--/-- 41 - ENIAC, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- 41 - Elections in Italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- 41 - General De Gaulle resigns as president of France; the Fourth Republic is formed.
1946/--/-- 41 - Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis publishes Zorba the Greek.
1946/--/-- 41 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
1946/--/-- 41 - MacArthur promotes Japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- 41 - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- 41 - Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier designs Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles.
1946/--/-- 41 - Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy is produced.
1946/--/-- 41 - The Philippines are granted independence with Manuel Roxas y Acuna as president.
1946/--/-- 41 - The Viet Minh begin a guerrilla war against the French in Indochina (Vietnam).
1946/--/-- 41 - Winston Churchill describes the Iron Curtain created in Europe by the Soviets.
1946/09/14 42 *** Benson, Clyde Little [1st cousin once removed] & Simpson, Mary Evelyn - Married
1946/10/-- 42 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1947/--/-- 42 - American pilot Kenneth Arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 42 - Artist Jackson Pollock produces Full Fathom Five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 42 - Artist Mark Rothko begins experimenting with Color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 42 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 42 - British & French Empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 42 - British India becomes Pakistan & India
1947/--/-- 42 - British atomic bomb scientist Klaus Fuchs is arrested for giving information to the USSR.
1947/--/-- 42 - Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an X-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 42 - Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham forms the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
1947/--/-- 42 - Dennis Gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 42 - Edwin Land demonstrates the single-step Polaroid Land Camera.
1947/--/-- 42 - English composer Benjamin Britten writes the opera Peter Grimes.
1947/--/-- 42 - French fashion designer Christian Dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 42 - French literary figure Andre Gide wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 42 - Gheorghiu-Dej heads the Romanian Communist party; King Michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 42 - India becomes independent and is divided into the nations of India and Pakistan.
1947/--/-- 42 - Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first prime minister of India.
1947/--/-- 42 - Marshall Plan
1947/--/-- 42 - Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft Kon Tiki from Peru to Polynesia.
1947/--/-- 42 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 42 - The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient Hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 42 - The U.S. Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe is established.
1947/--/-- 42 - The United Nations elect to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
1947/--/-- 42 - The first India-Pakistan War begins when Pakistani tribesmen invade Kashmir.
1947/--/-- 42 - The story of a Jewish victim of the Nazis, The Diary of Anne Frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 42 - Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, captured from Japan, administered by U.S.
1947/--/-- 42 - U.S. contains spread of communism
1947/06/21 43 *** Benson, Glendon Ora [1st cousin once removed] & Overholt, Paul Kenneth - Married
1947/10/-- 43 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1947/11/01 43 *** Benson, Richard Edgar [1st cousin once removed] & Marion, Phyllis June - Married
1948/--/-- 43 - Alec Guinness stars as Fagin in the film of Dicken's Oliver Twist.
1948/--/-- 43 - Alfred Kinsey publishes his report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
1948/--/-- 43 - American opera singer Beverly Sills debuts in Bizet's Carmen.
1948/--/-- 43 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes the war novel The Naked and the Dead.
1948/--/-- 43 - Arab armies invade Israel in the first Arab-Israeli War.
1948/--/-- 43 - Bell Labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 43 - Britain grants independence to Burma.
1948/--/-- 43 - Communism quashed in US
1948/--/-- 43 - Communist leader Kim Il Sung establishes the People's Republic of Korea (N. Korea).
1948/--/-- 43 - Dutch track star Fanny Blankers-Koen wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games.
1948/--/-- 43 - George Balanchine's Ballet Society is renamed the New York City Ballet.
1948/--/-- 43 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 43 - Israel created
1948/--/-- 43 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs The Bicycle Thieves.
1948/--/-- 43 - NATO formed; Cold War begins
1948/--/-- 43 - Palestinian Jews proclaim the independent state of Israel.
1948/--/-- 43 - Stalin expels Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 43 - The Communist party assumes power in Hungary under Matyas Rakosi.
1948/--/-- 43 - The Malayan Communist party begins an insurrection against British rule.
1948/--/-- 43 - The Republic of Korea (S. Korea) is inaugurated, Syngman Rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 43 - The Soviets blockade West Berlin; Britain and the U.S. begin the Berlin Airlift.
1948/--/-- 43 - The U.S. Air Force begins the Project Blue Book study of the UFO phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 43 - The apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in South Africa.
1948/--/-- 43 - The transistor is invented at Bell Laboratories in the U.S.
1948/10/-- 44 - World Series NL BOSTON (2) AL CLEVELAND (4)
1949/--/-- 44 *** Benson, William Trousdale [Great Uncle] - Died Kelson, TN Cemetery
1949/--/-- 44 - Abstract artist Robert Motherwell begins his series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
1949/--/-- 44 - Abstract-Expressionism breaks out in NYC
1949/--/-- 44 - Architect Philip Johnson designs the Glass House in New Caanan, Conn.
1949/--/-- 44 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 44 - British abstract sculptor Henry Moore completes the bronze Family Group.
1949/--/-- 44 - British author George Orwell publishes the futuristic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1949/--/-- 44 - Civil war ends in Greece with the defeat of the Communist forces.
1949/--/-- 44 - Communists under Mao defeat the Nationalists and form the People's Republic of China.
1949/--/-- 44 - Konrad Adenauer becomes the first chancellor of West Germany.
1949/--/-- 44 - Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb
1949/--/-- 44 - Miles Davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 44 - Nationalist Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek flee to the island of Taiwan.
1949/--/-- 44 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 44 - The Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan is renamed as Jordan.
1949/--/-- 44 - The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies).
1949/--/-- 44 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to deter Soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 44 - The Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established by the Western powers.
1949/--/-- 44 - The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 44 - The Soviets establish the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1949/--/-- 44 - The first India-Pakistan War ends with the partition of Kashmir.
1949/10/-- 45 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1950/--/-- 45 - Adnan Menderes replaces Ismet Inonu as prime minister of Turkey.
1950/--/-- 45 - Bette Davis stars in the film All About Eve.
1950/--/-- 45 - Cartoonist Charles Schulz creates the Peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 45 - Chinese forces invade Tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 45 - Communist North Korean forces invade South Korea.
1950/--/-- 45 - George Burns and Gracie Allen star in The Burns and Allen Show television series.
1950/--/-- 45 - Isaac Asimov publishes the science-fiction classic I Robot.
1950/--/-- 45 - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa achieves recognition with Rashomon.
1950/--/-- 45 - Korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 45 - President Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 45 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his inquiry into un-American activities.
1950/--/-- 45 - The UN sanctions military aid for South Korea; MacArthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 45 - U.S. official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a Soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 45 - UN forces cross into North Korea but are repulsed by the Chinese army.
1950/--/-- 45 - UN forces land at Inchon and drive the North Koreans out of South Korea.
1950/10/-- 46 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1951/--/-- 46 - A frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in Korea; peace negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1951/--/-- 46 - American novelist Kurt Vonnegut publishes Player Piano.
1951/--/-- 46 - American poet Marianne Moore publishes her Collected Poems.
1951/--/-- 46 - American writer J.D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye.
1951/--/-- 46 - American writer James Jones publishes the war novel From Here to Eternity.
1951/--/-- 46 - Artist Stuart Davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting Visa.
1951/--/-- 46 - Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. sign the mutual defense Anzus Treaty.
1951/--/-- 46 - Auto racer Juan Fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 46 - Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake La Motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 46 - British Conservatives win a general election with Winston Churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 46 - British spies Burgess and Maclean escape to the Soviet Union.
1951/--/-- 46 - Comedian Lucille Ball stars in the television series I Love Lucy.
1951/--/-- 46 - Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 46 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
1951/--/-- 46 - King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 46 - Leopold III of Belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 46 - President Truman dismisses MacArthur as commander in Korea.
1951/--/-- 46 - Prime minister Muhammad Mosaddeq nationalizes Iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 46 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The King and I is produced.
1951/--/-- 46 - Teller tests H-bomb
1951/--/-- 46 - Ten million television receivers have been installed in U.S. homes.
1951/--/-- 46 - The 22nd Amendment restricts U.S. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 46 - The UN General Assembly brands Communist China an aggressor in the Korean War.
1951/--/-- 46 - The first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 46 - UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
1951/10/-- 47 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1952/--/-- 47 - A bloodless coup returns Fulgencio Batista to power in Cuba.
1952/--/-- 47 - Agatha Christie's record-breaking play The Mouse Trap opens in London.
1952/--/-- 47 - American sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs two bridges for the Peace Park at Hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 47 - American writer E.B. White publishes the children's book Charlotte's Web.
1952/--/-- 47 - British architect Michael Ventris deciphers the ancient Greek Linear B script.
1952/--/-- 47 - Chuck Yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the X-1A research plane.
1952/--/-- 47 - Communist POW riots in South Korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 47 - Czech runner Emil Zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the Helsinki Olympic Games.
1952/--/-- 47 - Dancer Gene Kelly stars in the film Singin' in the Rain.
1952/--/-- 47 - Eva Peron, popularly known as Evita, dies in Argentina.
1952/--/-- 47 - Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly star in the Western film High Noon.
1952/--/-- 47 - Gordon Bunshaft designs the Lever House, an early International Style building.
1952/--/-- 47 - Hostilities continue in Korea with increased UN air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 47 - King Farouk of Egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by Gen. Muhammad Naguib.
1952/--/-- 47 - Kwame Nkrumah is elected prime minister of the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1952/--/-- 47 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1952/--/-- 47 - Opera singer Maria Callas debuts at London's Covent Garden.
1952/--/-- 47 - Queen Elizabeth II ascends to the British throne on the death of her father George VI.
1952/--/-- 47 - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is produced in Paris.
1952/--/-- 47 - The British de Havilland Comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 47 - The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is formed with Luis Munoz Marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 47 - The Mau Mau uprising begins in Kenya; Jomo Kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 47 - The U.S. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific.
1952/--/-- 47 - The first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1952/--/-- 47 - Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1952/--/-- 47 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his Checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 47 - Elizabeth II succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1952/10/-- 48 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1953/--/-- 48 - A Redstone rocket (based on the German V-2) is tested at Cape Canaveral.
1953/--/-- 48 - American physicist Charles H. Townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 48 - American tennis player Maureen Connolly (Little Mo) wins the Grand Slam.
1953/--/-- 48 - American writer Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March.
1953/--/-- 48 - An armistice ends the Korean War; the country remains divided into North and South.
1953/--/-- 48 - Arthur Miller writes The Crucible, a play about the Salem Witch Trials.
1953/--/-- 48 - Black writer James Baldwin publishes his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.
1953/--/-- 48 - Communist statesman Imre Nagy becomes premier of Hungary.
1953/--/-- 48 - Dag Hammarskjold succeeds Trygve Lie as secretary-general of the UN.
1953/--/-- 48 - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1953/--/-- 48 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to climb Mount Everest.
1953/--/-- 48 - Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th U.S. president; Nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 48 - Fidel Castro leads an attack on an army barracks in Cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 48 - Golfer Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open, Masters, and British Open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 48 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 48 - Hussein I succeeds his father as king of Jordan.
1953/--/-- 48 - Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion retires; he is succeeded by Moshe Sharett.
1953/--/-- 48 - Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe the Trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 48 - James Watson and Francis Crick propose the double helix structure of DNA.
1953/--/-- 48 - John Foster Dulles is selected as the U.S. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 48 - Laos, formerly a part of French Indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 48 - Lavrenti Beria, head of the Soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 48 - Marilyn Monroe stars in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
1953/--/-- 48 - Murray Gell-Mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 48 - Physicist Donald Glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 48 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies; Georgy M. Malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 48 - The first heart-lung machine is developed by Dr. John Gibbon.
1953/--/-- 48 - The fossil remains of Piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 48 - Watson & Crick DNA=double helix
1953/06/-- 49 - Elizabeth II crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Westminster
1953/10/-- 49 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1954/--/-- 49 - A Supreme Court decision prohibits racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
1954/--/-- 49 - American novelist Evan Hunter publishes The Blackboard Jungle.
1954/--/-- 49 - British artist Francis Bacon begins his Portrait of Pope Innocent X series.
1954/--/-- 49 - British novelist William Golding publishes Lord of the Flies.
1954/--/-- 49 - Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 49 - English runner Roger Bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 49 - French forces are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam.
1954/--/-- 49 - Gamal Abdel Nasser ousts Gen. Muhammad Naguib as president of Egypt.
1954/--/-- 49 - Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond thriller Casino Royale.
1954/--/-- 49 - Italian film-maker Federico Fellini directs La Strada.
1954/--/-- 49 - Kingsley Amis, one of England's angry young men, publishes Lucky Jim.
1954/--/-- 49 - Marlon Brando stars in Elia Kazan's film On the Waterfront.
1954/--/-- 49 - National Liberation Front (FLN) raids on French property spark the Algerian War.
1954/--/-- 49 - Senator McCarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 49 - Television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 49 - The Geneva Conference establishes the partition of Vietnam into North and South.
1954/--/-- 49 - The U.S. and Canada begin construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1954/--/-- 49 - The U.S. nuclear submarine the Nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 49 - U.S. "Nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 50 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL CLEVELAND (0)
1955/--/-- 50 - A military coup in Argentina deposes president Juan Peron.
1955/--/-- 50 - AFL and CIO merge
1955/--/-- 50 - American artist Jasper Johns begins his paintings of American flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 50 - American artist Larry Rivers paints Double Portrait of Birdie.
1955/--/-- 50 - American rock 'n' roll musician Bill Haley records Rock Around the Clock.
1955/--/-- 50 - Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain.
1955/--/-- 50 - Austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 50 - Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery
1955/--/-- 50 - British writer Graham Greene publishes The Quiet American.
1955/--/-- 50 - British writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien completes The Lord of the Rings.
1955/--/-- 50 - David Ben-Gurion returns as prime minister of Israel.
1955/--/-- 50 - Film star James Dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 50 - Jonas Salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 50 - Marian Anderson becomes the first black to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1955/--/-- 50 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 50 - Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov publishes the novel Lolita.
1955/--/-- 50 - Satyajit Ray directs Pather Panchali, the first film in a trilogy on Bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 50 - Supreme Court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 50 - The Federal Republic of Germany joins NATO.
1955/--/-- 50 - The Warsaw Pact establishes a military alliance of European Communist nations.
1955/--/-- 50 - Theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin publishes The Phenomenon of Man.
1955/10/-- 51 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1956/--/-- 51 - American beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems.
1956/--/-- 51 - American television news show The Huntley-Brinkley Report begins.
1956/--/-- 51 - American writer Grace Metalious publishes Peyton Place.
1956/--/-- 51 - Anglo-French forces invade Egypt but withdraw after protests from the U.S.
1956/--/-- 51 - Archbishop Makarios III is deported from Cyprus by the British.
1956/--/-- 51 - Brendan Behan's play The Quare Fellow opens in London.
1956/--/-- 51 - Britain, France and Israel agree on a secret joint action against Egypt.
1956/--/-- 51 - British artist Richard Hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 51 - David Niven stars in the film Around the World in Eighty Days.
1956/--/-- 51 - Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced.
1956/--/-- 51 - Fidel Castro and Che Guevara land in Cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 51 - Film actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1956/--/-- 51 - Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 51 - Israeli forces under Moshe Dayan seize the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
1956/--/-- 51 - John Osborne's first play Look Back In Anger is produced in London.
1956/--/-- 51 - Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady opens in New York.
1956/--/-- 51 - President Anastasio Somoza Garcia is assassinated in Nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 51 - President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal before the British lease expires.
1956/--/-- 51 - President Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold elections in South Vietnam.
1956/--/-- 51 - Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley records his first hit Heartbreak Hotel.
1956/--/-- 51 - Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the crimes of the Stalin era.
1956/--/-- 51 - Sudan gains independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 51 - The Hungarian Uprising is suppressed by Soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 51 - The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sinks off the U.S. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 51 - Tunisia and Morocco are granted independence by France.
1956/10/-- 52 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1957/--/-- 52 - Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac publishes On The Road.
1957/--/-- 52 - Black tennis player Althea Gibson wins the U.S. Open and Wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 52 - British philosopher A.J. Ayer publishes The Problem of Knowledge.
1957/--/-- 52 - British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns; is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
1957/--/-- 52 - Dr. Seuss publishes the children's book The Cat in the Hat.
1957/--/-- 52 - Francois Duvalier (known as Papa Doc) is elected president of Haiti.
1957/--/-- 52 - Ghana gains independence; Kwame Nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 52 - Jack Kerouac "On the Road"
1957/--/-- 52 - Jerome Robbins is director-choreographer of the musical West Side Story.
1957/--/-- 52 - John G. Diefenbaker succeeds Louis St. Laurent as prime minister of Canada.
1957/--/-- 52 - Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of The Alexandria Quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 52 - Scientists from 67 nations work together during the International Geophysical Year.
1957/--/-- 52 - Soviet leaders Malenkov and Molotov fail in an attempt to oust Khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 52 - Soviets launch "Sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 52 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs The Seventh Seal.
1957/--/-- 52 - The Israeli army withdraws from Egypt; the Gaza Strip is policed by UN forces.
1957/--/-- 52 - The USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 52 - The Viet Cong begin acts of rebellion in South Vietnam.
1957/--/-- 52 - Tunku Abdul Rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya (Malaysia).
1957/06/15 53 *** Booher, Doris Evangeline & Benson, Roy Lee [1st cousin once removed] - Married
1957/10/-- 53 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1958/--/-- 53 - American economist J.K. Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society.
1958/--/-- 53 - American golfer Arnold Palmer wins the Masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 53 - American playwright Edward Albee writes The Zoo Story.
1958/--/-- 53 - American writer Truman Capote publishes the novella Breakfast At Tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 53 - Bertrand Russell founds the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain.
1958/--/-- 53 - Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; it is ended when U.S. Marines land at Beirut.
1958/--/-- 53 - Egypt and Syria form the United Arab Republic.
1958/--/-- 53 - Gen. Muhammad Ayub Khan seizes control in Pakistan.
1958/--/-- 53 - Leonard Bernstein becomes the conductor of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 53 - Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as Soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 53 - Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd extends South Africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 53 - Russian writer Boris Pasternak publishes the novel Doctor Zhivago.
1958/--/-- 53 - Soccer player Pele leads Brazil to victory in the World Cup.
1958/--/-- 53 - The Algerian crisis prompts the recall of Charles de Gaulle as president of France.
1958/--/-- 53 - The European Economic Community (EEC) is established.
1958/--/-- 53 - The French army and settlers in Algiers revolt over the Algerian War stalemate.
1958/--/-- 53 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is founded.
1958/--/-- 53 - The U.S. launches the Explorer I and Vanguard I scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 53 - The first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched in the U.S.
1958/--/-- 53 - The nuclear submarine Nautilus reaches the North Pole under the Polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 53 - Wilson Greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 54 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1959/--/-- 54 - Alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 54 - American writer Leon Uris publishes Exodus, a novel on the founding of Israel.
1959/--/-- 54 - American writer William Burroughs publishes The Naked Lunch.
1959/--/-- 54 - Anthropologists Richard and Mary Leakey discover an Australopithecus skull in Africa.
1959/--/-- 54 - Artist Robert Rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage Monogram.
1959/--/-- 54 - Cyprus gains independence from Britain; Archbishop Makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 54 - Fidel Castro ousts Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 54 - Film actor Charlton Heston wins the Academy Award for his role in Ben-Hur.
1959/--/-- 54 - French New Wave filmmaker Jean Luc Godard directs Breathless.
1959/--/-- 54 - French filmmaker Alain Resnais directs Hiroshima Mon Amour.
1959/--/-- 54 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs The 400 Blows.
1959/--/-- 54 - German writer Gunter Grass publishes his first novel The Tin Drum.
1959/--/-- 54 - Hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 54 - Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe star in the film Some Like it Hot.
1959/--/-- 54 - Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave "Breathless"
1959/--/-- 54 - Lee Kuan Yew becomes prime minister of Singapore.
1959/--/-- 54 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is the first Broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 54 - NASA selects the first seven U.S. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 54 - Rock 'n roll star Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 54 - Rod Serling hosts the Twilight Zone television series.
1959/--/-- 54 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The Sound of Music is produced.
1959/--/-- 54 - Sir Christopher Cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 54 - The Boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 54 - The Dalai Lama flees to India after China crushes an uprising in Tibet.
1959/--/-- 54 - The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City.
1959/--/-- 54 - The Soviet Union sends a series of Luna space probes to the Moon.
1959/--/-- 54 - The first flight is made by the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/10/-- 55 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL CHICAGO (2)
1960/--/-- 55 - 69 Africans are killed in the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.
1960/--/-- 55 - A military coup takes place in Turkey; prime minister Adnan Menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 55 - A student uprising forces the resignation of Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea.
1960/--/-- 55 - American author John Updike publishes the novel Rabbit Run.
1960/--/-- 55 - American physicist Theodore H. Maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 55 - American track star Wilma Rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the Rome Olympic Games.
1960/--/-- 55 - An earthquake kills 15,000 at Agadir in Morocco.
1960/--/-- 55 - Belgium grants independence to the Congo (Zaire); Patrice Lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 55 - Britain grants independence to Nigeria; Abubakar Balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 55 - Civil Rights movement
1960/--/-- 55 - Congo (Zaire) premier Patrice Lumumba is ousted by Joseph Mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 55 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs the suspense thriller Psycho.
1960/--/-- 55 - Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is abducted to Israel.
1960/--/-- 55 - France grants independence to the Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, and Gabon.
1960/--/-- 55 - Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 55 - Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni directs La Notte (The Night).
1960/--/-- 55 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe Trieste.
1960/--/-- 55 - Maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 55 - NASA launches the first TIROS weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 55 - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson founds the Christian Broadcasting Network.
1960/--/-- 55 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
1960/--/-- 55 - South African civil rights leader Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1960/--/-- 55 - The Congo crisis begins with the secession of Katanga province under Moise Tshombe.
1960/--/-- 55 - The Echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 55 - The Motown record company is founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy.
1960/--/-- 55 - The South African government bans the African National Congress (ANC).
1960/--/-- 55 - The Soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane; U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 55 - The first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 55 - The first submerged firing is made of a Polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 55 - The planned city of Brasilia becomes the new capital of Brazil.
1960/--/-- 55 - The presidential debates of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 55 - Viet Cong groups unite into the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLFSV).
1960/--/-- 55 - Walter Ulbricht becomes head of East Germany.
1960/10/-- 56 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1961/--/-- 56 - Agostinho Neto and Holden Roberto lead insurrections in Portuguese Angola.
1961/--/-- 56 - American writer Joseph Heller publishes the anti-war novel Catch-22.
1961/--/-- 56 - American-aided Cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 56 - Astronaut Alan Shepard makes the first U.S. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 56 - Britain grants independence to Tanganyika (Tanzania) with Julius Nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 56 - British novelist Iris Murdoch publishes A Severed Head.
1961/--/-- 56 - English writer Muriel Spark publishes The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
1961/--/-- 56 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim.
1961/--/-- 56 - India annexes the Portugese territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu.
1961/--/-- 56 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs Sophia Loren in Alberto Moravia's Two Women.
1961/--/-- 56 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti debuts in Puccini's La Boheme.
1961/--/-- 56 - John F. Kennedy (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1961/--/-- 56 - Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 56 - Kennedy launches "Apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 56 - Peace Corps
1961/--/-- 56 - President Kennedy begins to increase the U.S. military presence in Vietnam.
1961/--/-- 56 - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961/--/-- 56 - President Kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the Moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 56 - President Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in the Dominican Republic.
1961/--/-- 56 - Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 56 - Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein publishes Stranger in a Strange Land.
1961/--/-- 56 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West.
1961/--/-- 56 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 56 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs Max Von Sydow in Through a Glass Darkly.
1961/--/-- 56 - The Berlin Wall is constructed, separating East and West Berlin.
1961/--/-- 56 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 56 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 56 - The drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 56 - UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the Congo (Zaire).
1961/--/-- 56 - V.S. Naipaul writes about West Indian life in A House for Mr. Biswas.
1961/04/28 56 *** Stack, Thomas Edward [Nephew] - Died Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
1961/06/08 57 *** Benson, Roy Lee - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1961/07/22 57 *** Sumners, Nancy Nurline [Wife] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1961/10/-- 57 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
In 1904 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
By 1961 Transportation was by:
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
Helicopter
Jet
nuclear ship
in addition.
By 1961 Transportation by:
Horse
Steamboat
Balloon
had been discontinued.
In 1904 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
By 1961 Communications by:
Telegraph
had been discontinued.
In 1904 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
By 1961 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Electric
Refrigeration
Dish washer
in addition.
By 1961 Food Preparation by:
Wood
had been discontinued.
In 1904 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1904 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1904 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
By 1961 War Making was by:
Assault rifle
tank
TNT
Chemical agents
Biological agents
Aeroplane
Helicopter
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
Satellites
in addition.
By 1961 War Making by:
Calvary
had been discontinued.
In 1904 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
By 1961 Navigation was by:
Radio Signals
Radar
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:54:45