1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau

1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested

1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland

1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1

1946 Liner Mauritania docks in Halifax carrying 943 war brides and children from England.

1947 Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland

1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia

1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms

1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland

1947 WWII peace treaties signed

1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki

1949 The Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, makes its Broadway debut.

1950 The Temiscouata Railway is entrusted to Canadian National. This line, which was opened throughout on October 1, 1891, ran from Rivière du Loup to Edmundston and from Edmundston to Connors.

1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21

1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari

1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain

1953 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of Great Britain

1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA

1953 Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA

1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam

1954 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II plants a tree at the Australian War Memorial to mark the beginning of the Remembrance Driveway between Canberra and Sydney

1954 Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy Great Britain

1954 Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN

1954 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch Germany

1954 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US

1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV

1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA

1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"

1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265

1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power

1962 Captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the U.S.S.R. in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the U.S.

1963 US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon

1963 US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz

1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne

1965 In Northwestern Iran a 5.1 earthquake occurred. At least 20 persons were fatally injured and thousands of houses destroyed in and near Bustanabad

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