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# 1887 - The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois

1893 - Settlers race in Oklahoma for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.

1901 - Alturas, California, incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.

1908 - General Motors is founded.

1919 - The American Legion is incorporated.

1920 - The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 38 are killed with 400 injured.

1940 - Sam Rayburn elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, widely regarded as the most effective Speaker of the House in American history.

# 1941 - Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

1955 - Juan Perón is deposed in Argentina.

1963 - Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.