1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington.
1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament.
1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews.
1941 British cruiser HMS Dorsetshire forces crew of German submarine supply ship MV Python to scuttle vessel in the South Atlantic 1,150 miles west of South Africa.
1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.
1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
1990 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel.
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