1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch radio

1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

1942 Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles

1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk

1944 First black reporter accredited to the White House, Harry McAlpin

1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland

1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald

1945 Beginning of the Battle of the Rhineland as the First Canadian Army attacks German positions in the Reichswald

1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties

1948 5th Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV

1955 John Grisham author of A Time to Kill, The Firm and other was born

1955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him

1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die

1957 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall

1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die

1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle WA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1960 Congress opens hearings looking into payola

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 First transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)

1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London

1964 Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84

1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"

1967 French Diadème D-1C satellite launches into Earth orbit

1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games).

1967 Peter (Asher) &Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership

1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down

1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 Three college students are killed in a clash with the South Carolina highway patrol, during a civil rights protest in Orangeburg.

1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México

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