Person report

★14 Oct 1888
French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.

★01 Jan 1892
The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened, and over the course of its existence, processed 12 million immigrants to the United States.

★07 Jan 1904
The Marconi International Marine Communication Company mandated that CQD be the distress signal use by its operators, although this was replaced by SOS a few years later.

★11 May 1928
After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China.

★04 Dec 1928
Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.

★15 Jan 1934
At least 10,700 people died when an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.

★05 Apr 1936
Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hit Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S., killing at least 216 people.

★22 Sep 1939
A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.

★27 Sep 1941
SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.

★16 Feb 1943
World War II: Norwegian commandos destroyed a factory to prevent the German nuclear weapon project from acquiring heavy water.

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