1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands

1944 Allied fleet shell Japanese positions at Sabang, north of Sumatra

1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed

1945 Start of the first Victory Test Cricket between England &Australia Services

1946 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam

1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea

1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George UT)

1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project

1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian Government

1958 "South Pacific" soundtrack album goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks

1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party" in London

1958 US &Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

1959 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands

1960 Alan Freed &eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola

1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed

1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph

1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen

1962 "John Birch Society" by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99

1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea

1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's National League hit record with 3,431

1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy

1965 30th Naval Construction Regiment activated at Danang, Vietnam

1965 Patricia R Harris named first US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)

1965 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II

1967 US bombs Hanoi

1967 USSR ratifies treaty with England &US banning nuclear weapons in space

1968 20th Emmy Awards Get Smart, Mission Impossible &Barbara Bain

1968 Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England first heard

1971 USSR launches Mars 2, first spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election

1975 27th Emmy Awards Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake &Jean Marsh

1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India

1975 Junko Tabei is first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest

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