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1945: United Nations established.The charter for the United Nations—the world's premier international organization, established at the end of World War II to maintain world peace and friendly relations among nations—entered into force this day in 1945.More events on this day1970:Salvador Allende's election as the first Marxist president of Chile was confirmed. |
1940:The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. |
1929:A record 12,894,650 shares of stock were traded, causing the first day of real panic in the Crash of 1929, known as “Black Thursday.” |
1922:Benito Mussolini summoned a “March on Rome” and subsequently became dictator of Italy. |
1917:More than 600,000 Italians surrendered or retreated at the Battle of Caporetto during World War I. |
1861:The first transcontinental telegram was sent via the telegraph in the United States, effectively bringing to an end the Pony Express. |
1648:The Peace of Westphalia ended the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years' War. |
1632:Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who became the first to observe bacteria and protozoans, was born. |
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