1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed

1943 US first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

1944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway

1944 Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine

1944 Meat rationing ends in US

1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

1945 British troop join in Rangoon

1945 First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.

1945 First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen

1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed

1945 Rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division

1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins

1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy

1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener &Tennessee Williams

1949 The first firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km

1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances

1952 The first airplane to land at the geographic location of the North Pole did so on this day.

1952 The first landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole

1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh &John Patrick

1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner Walter O’ Malley agreed to move the team from Flatbush to sunny Los Angeles. Initially, only exhibition games were held at the L.A. Coliseum

1958 In Brockville, Ontario a Trust company is robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities.

1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC

1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)

1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech

1963 Over 1,600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding; the townsites will be moved to higher ground.

1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US

1965 In El Salvador a 6.0 earthquake left 125 persons dead, about 500 injured, and an estimated 48,000 homeless

1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)

1965 The first use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite

1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University

1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International

1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days

1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)

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