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★31 May 1879
Gilmore's Garden in New York City was renamed Madison Square Garden, the city's first venue to use that name.

★01 Sep 1902
The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.

★05 Oct 1903
Samuel Griffith became the first Chief Justice of Australia, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justices of the High Court of Australia.

★01 Jul 1916
First World War: The first day of the Battle of Albert, the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme, became the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, with 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds.

★26 Mar 1917
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.

★02 Sep 1935
The Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys, killing at least 423 people.

★28 Dec 1935
Politician Pavel Postyshev revived the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union when Pravda published his letter asking for them to be installed in schools, children's homes, Young Pioneer Palaces, children's clubs, children's theaters, and cinema theaters.

★26 Feb 1936
Over 1400 troops of the Imperial Japanese Army staged a coup d'etat in Japan, occupying Tokyo, and killing Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo and several other leading politicians.

★29 Jan 1944
World War II: At least 38 civilians were killed and about a dozen others injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy was attacked by a Soviet partisan unit with a contingent of Jewish partisans.

★12 Aug 1944
After a week of indiscriminate killing of civilians in Wola, Warsaw, Poland, SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ordered that any remaining Poles be sent to labour or concentration camps.

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