1920<\/strong> – The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – The first televised major league baseball games were shown. 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The company that had sold its products door to door for 81 years.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised that national elections would be held.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – A “no-fly zone” was imposed on the southern 1\/3 of Iraq. 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