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1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II. 
1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84567).
1940 Arthur De Greef, composer, dies at 77
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia results in the deaths of 1469 Jewish children
1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
1942 American Jewish conference meets in New York to discuss agenda of Jewish Unity (Rescue vs. Zionist program)
1943 Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany.
1944 15000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees.
1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan.
1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
1947 Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1949 USSR explodes its inaugural atomic bomb.
1949 USSR performs inaugural nuclear test.
1950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52.
1953 USSR explodes its inaugural hydrogen bomb.
1953 KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting.
1954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens.
1956 French govt routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights.
1957 US Senator Strom Thurmond talks nonstop for 24 hours, 18 minutes to filibuster a civil rights bill
1958 Air Force Academy opens.
1958 Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo.
1960 Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1960 Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 46.
1964 USS Boxer and two LSD's arrived off the coast of Hispaniola to give medical aid and helicopter evacuation services to people in areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic badly damaged by Hurricane Cleo.
1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released.
1965 Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5.
1965 Gemini V, with astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad and Gordon Cooper aboard, splashes down after eight days of orbiting the Earth.
1966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF).
1966 The Beatles make what would utimately be their last live performance with a show at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"
1968 Victor Sutherland, dies at 79.
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
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