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September 28, 1924 (Sunday) [ edit ] The four remaining American aviators in the round-the-world flight expedition completed their journey by landing at Sand Point in Seattle in the airplanes Chicago (with pilot Lowell H. Smith and co-pilot Leslie P. Arnold) and New Orleans (with pilot Erik H. Nelson and co-pilot John Harding Jr), all four of ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
September 2 Italy and the USSR sign the Italo-Soviet Pact. [19] September 12 Leó Szilárd conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. October 19 Germany leaves the League of Nations over objections to the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments. November 16 The United States extends diplomatic recognition to the Soviet ...
The Battle of Lingbi began as part of the Chinese Civil War.; The Dominican Republic ratified the United Nations Charter. [3]Emperor Hirohito personally opened a new session of the Japanese Diet with an appeal to his people to "win the confidence of the world" and "establish firmly a peaceful state."
September 1 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer (d. 2019) September 2 – Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015) September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014) September 5. Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. 2013) Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d ...
1664 – September 24 – New Amsterdam is ceded by Peter Stuyvesant to England who renamed it New York after James, Duke of York. [6] 1665 June 12: Thomas Willett was appointed as the city's first mayor. Wallabout Bay in Brooklyn location of first recorded murder trial - Albert Wantanaer accused of killing Barent Jansen Blom. [11]
September 6 – John S. McCain Sr., U.S. Navy admiral (born 1884; heart attack on active service) September 15 – Harry Daghlian, physicist (born 1921) September 18 – Blind Willie Johnson, African American gospel singer and guitarist (born 1897; pneumonia) September 20 – Jack Thayer, survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (born 1894)
1945 marked the end of an era. In foreign policy the United Nations was established on October 24, 1945, to serve as a world body to help prevent future world wars. By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate, on December 4, 1945, approved the treaty that set full American participation in the UN, with a veto in the all-important Security ...