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★04 Mar 1890
The Forth Bridge, a railway bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, opened, becoming an internationally recognised Scottish landmark.

★24 Dec 1906
Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast, which included his playing a song on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.

★15 Sep 1916
Tanks, the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of Flers–Courcelette in Somme, Picardy, France.

★16 Sep 1920
A bomb in a horse wagon exploded in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.

★20 Sep 1920
Irish War of Independence: British police officers known as Black and Tans went on a rampage in Balbriggan as revenge for the shooting of two officers.

★21 Jun 1921
Irish War of Independence: The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, was burned by British forces.

★08 Sep 1921
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss America pageant.

★04 Nov 1938
The deportation of several thousand Jews from Slovakia by the Hlinka Guard and police began.

★02 Mar 1943
World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and destroyed a large convoy of the Japanese Navy in the Bismarck Sea north of Papua New Guinea.

★12 Aug 1950
Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 captured U.S. Army prisoners of war.

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