1934 Bob &Dolores Hope marry

1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months

1936 Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier

1941 Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam &round up 429 young Jews for deportation

1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin

1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber

1942 First Japanese air raid on Darwin The city was bombed 64 times between feb 1942 and nov 1943

1942 Japanese troop land on Timor

1942 Tommy Dorsey &his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"

1942 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt grants authority for the military to intern Japanese-Americans during WWII.

1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia

1943 Parliament approves Defence (Citizen Military Forces) Bill introducing conscription for service in south-west Pacific war zone

1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin

1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland

1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days

1945 A U.S. invasion force of 30,000 marines land at Iwo Jima, starting a month-long WWII battle against Japanese troops.

1949 Mass arrests of communists in India

1952 French offensive at Hanoi

1953 Georgia approves US first literature censorship board

1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet

1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

1959 Britain, Turkey &Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence

1959 Gabon adopts its constitution

1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico

1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland

1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize

1963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US

1969 First Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet

1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 &Molniya 1-13 communications satellite

1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK

1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara

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