1900 - Labour Party forms in England
1936 - Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
1940 - British railroads nationalized
1940 - Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres (New York, N.Y.)
1947 - Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees)
1959 - Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1960 - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1971 - Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
1984 - Michael Jackson awarded a 4-foot-high platinum disc by CBS
1990 - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
1998 - 18th Winter Olympics games open at Nagano, Japan