1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad

1943 The first US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma

1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close

1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London.

1946 UN General Assembly convenes for first time (London)

1946 US Army establishes first radar contact with Moon, Belmar NJ

1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard

1949 First Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premieres on CBS

1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record

1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY

1957 Harold Macmillan becomes prime minister of Britain, after the resignation of Anthony Eden.

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart

1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz

1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Perú

1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500

1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta

1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US

1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres

1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory

1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord

1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

1967 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven

1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia

1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho

1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland

1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam

1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus

1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur

1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan

1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK

1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die

1977 Canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation

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