1941 Start of siege of Tobruk, Libya, which lasts until 7 December 1941

1941 USS Niblack, while rescuing survivors of torpedoed ship, depth charged German submarine; first action of WW II between U.S. and German navies

1942 Japanese capture Bataan and 36,000 troops.

1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously

1945 Allies liberate first Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)

1945 On his last visit to Theresienstadt, Adolf Eichmann is heard to say, "I shall gladly jump into the pit, knowing that in the same pit there are 5 million enemies of the state."

1947 Montreal Royals of the International League sell their star player Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers; appears in uniform for the Dodgers the next day,

1948 Jewish Hagana repells an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek

1949 Sam Snead wins Masters golf tournament

1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1760 Sandra

1953 "House of Wax," first 3-D movie, released (NYC)

1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely

1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco

1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda

1960 Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament

1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1961 Gary Player becomes first foreign golfer to win the Masters

1962 In Vermont a 4.2 earthquake was the largest historical earthquake in Vermont.

1963 During diving tests, USS Thresher lost with all hands (112 crew and 12 civilians) east of Cape Cod, MA

1963 Parliament passes Food and Drugs Act, getting more control over sale of drugs.

1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire &sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

1965 Trois-Rivières Quebec German freighter Transatlantic sinks after colliding with Dutch ship Hermes; 3 sailors killed.

1966 River Patrol Boats of River Patrol Force commenced operations on inland waters of South Vietnam

1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR

1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars

1972 In Southern Iran a 7.1 earthquake struck the Fars Province of southern Iran killing over 5,000 and injuring 1,700.

1972 US, USSR &70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons

1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143

1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir

1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian

1981 "Caveman" with Ringo premiers

1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded

1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliment

1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle with help from the Canadian Arm

1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors

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