1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive

1941 The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic

1943 Admiral Dönitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean

1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje

1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists

1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark

1944 Major John Keefer Mahony (The Westminister Regiment(Motor)) wins the Victoria Cross at the Melfa River, Italy

1946 Transjordan (now known as Jordan) becomes a kingdom, with King Abdulla Ibn Ul-Hussein as the new monarch

1951 Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal

1951 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1951 Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants

1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes first black to head an AMA unit

1954 German airline Lufthansa forms

1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

1954 The first rocket attains 150 mile (241 km) altitude, White Sands NM

1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan

1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia

1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion

1958 United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service

1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International

1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England

1959 The first house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)

1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed

1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS

1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

1961 U S President Kennedy asks the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade

1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit

1963 The first Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely

1964 18th Tony Awards Luther & Hello Dolly win

1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan

1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300

1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional

1966 "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances

1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days

1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession

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