1943 Navy representatives witnessed landing trials of the XR-4 helicopter aboard the merchant tanker Bunker

1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia

1943 US first Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia

1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia

1944 HMCS Valleyfield torpedoed

1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League

1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender

1945 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe

1945 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII

1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated

1945 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender

1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands

1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)

1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22

1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as first black governor of Virgin Islands

1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC

1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution

1947 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt

1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death

1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics

1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)

1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances

1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile

1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu

1954 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO

1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain

1955 West Europe Union established

1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300

1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters

1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances

1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances

1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR

1960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship

1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy

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