1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their first game

1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold

1934 French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)

1940 -17ºF (-27ºC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)

1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

1942 -19ºF (-27.4ºC), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850

1942 HMS THANET, sunk south east Malaya in South China Sea - by gunfire of Japanese 5.5in cruiser 'Sendai' and destroyers while attacking Japanese troop transports

1943 The first US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed

1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)

1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz &Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

1945 Russian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Birkenau and Auschwitz.

1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested

1948 The first locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates

1948 The first tape recorder sold

1949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China

1949 The Chief of Naval Operations authorized conversion of all new-construction cruisers to accommodate helicopters.

1950 2nd Emmy Awards Ed Wynn Show &Texaco Star Theater win

1951 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 320 performances

1951 The Air Force tests a one-kiloton atomic bomb at Frenchman Flats in the Nevada desert.

1953 Netherlands end Marshall aid

1958 Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary

1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV

1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US

1964 Barlow &Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval

1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid

1965 The first ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite

1967 A treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons is signed by representatives of more than 60 countries.

1967 Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records

1967 Fire in the spacecraft! The world is shocked to learn that astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee die in a flash fire during testing of the Apollo I space capsule at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed

1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad

1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria

1969 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)

1969 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years

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