1942 Australian troops reinforce Port Moresby

1942 Gasoline first rationed in US (17 Eastern States)

1942 Movement of POWs ("A Force") to Thailand from Singapore for work on the Burma–Thailand Railway

1942 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers

1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463

1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction

1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz

1944 Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz begins.

1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan

1944 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne

1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends

1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs Essex, world record

1948 Bradman scores 187 Australia vs Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five

1948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel

1951 AT&T is first US company to have one million stockholders

1953 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago for heavywgt boxing title

1953 Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam

1955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins

1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1955 Vienna Treaty Britain, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence

1956 In Orleans Ontario, a Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashes into the Grey Nuns' Home for the Aged in Orleans, killing 15 people, including 11 nuns.

1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade

1957 The first British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)

1958 Sputnik III satelite launched by the U S S R

1958 USSR launches Sputnik III

1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed

1960 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US

1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1962 US marines arrive in Laos

1963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched

1963 Peter, Paul & Mary win their first Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)

1963 Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam

1964 Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp

1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die

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