1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya

1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

1941 Paul Creston's first Symphony, premieres

1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres

1943 HMCS Weyburn strikes a mine near Gibralter and sinks

1943 Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Weyburn strikes mine and sinks near Gibraltar.

1943 The Bulgarian government signs an agreement with the Germans to allow deportations from Macedonia and Thrace. 11,000 Jews are deported.

1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die

1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)

1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma

1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland

1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die

1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail

1956 Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"

1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)

1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes

1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)

1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their first US visit

1965 Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies.

1965 The Beatles begin filming scenes on location in the Bahamas for their second movie, Help!

1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)

1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, first 2-dog crew

1967 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border

1968 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"

1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar

1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing

1973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan commercial airliner (106 die)

1973 US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Washington DC

1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators

1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN

1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated

1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain

1980 Afghanistan declares martial law

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page »