1943 Ottawa imposes severe wartime gasoline rationing of 10 gallons a month for every private car

1943 Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

1944 German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy

1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland

1945 First gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA

1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement during WWII.

1948 Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs West Indies, out for 140

1948 John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland

1948 Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs England Port-of-Spain

1949 Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title

1950 "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1

1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins first parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)

1951 Marshall Teague drove a Hudson Hornet to victory on the beach oval of the 160-mile Daytona Grand National at Daytona Beach, Florida

1953 President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

1953 Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel

1954 6th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win

1956 Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow

1958 Auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona.

1958 Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs

1958 Ruth Carol Taylor is first African-American woman hired as flight attendant

1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi)

1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show

1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem

1962 Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon

1963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me"

1963 CIA Domestic Operations Division created

1963 Near Kapuskasing Ontarioa shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded0

1964 Beatles first live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum

1964 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus

1964 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France

1965 Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London.

1968 Israeli-Jordan border fight

1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY

1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France

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