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1.2 1900-1999

• 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
• 1919 - World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France.
• 1919 - Bentley Motors is founded.
• 1939 - Louis Armstrong records " Jeepers Creepers ."
• 1943 - World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
• 1943 - The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
• 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
• 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.
• 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the " Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
• 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
• 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease."
• 1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
• 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• 1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
• 1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
• 1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
• 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
• 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
• 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
• 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
• 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
• 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report .

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