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1940  British troops occupies Sollum.   

1941  German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa.   

1941  HMS THRACIAN, lost while in Hong Kong - ran aground, dry-docked but damaged by Japanese bombing, later beached. Salvaged and served in Japanese Navy.   

1941  Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor   

1942  Allies condemn the Nazis for murdering Jews.   

1942  Allies in London sentence German war criminals.   

1943  Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.   

1944  Japanese-Americans released from detention camps   

1944  US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast   

1944  Green Bay Packers win NFL championship   

1944  Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26   

1946  US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM   

1946  Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea   

1946  Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84.   

1947  New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow.   

1947  NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow   

1948  Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68.   

1949  "Regina" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances.   

1949  David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72   

1951  Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants   

1953  Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad   

1954  British Petroleum Company (BP) formed.   

1954  fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary IN).   

1955  Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it at the Sun Studios in Memphis   

1956  Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48   

1957  The Atlas U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile makes its inaugural test flight   

1957  Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64.   

1959  On the Beach premiered this day at the Astor Theatre in New York City -- and in 17 other cities. It was the inaugural motion picture to debut simultaneously in major cities around the world   

1961  Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil.   

1961  India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies   

1961  Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53   

1962  Current constitution of Monaco promulgated.   

1962  Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70   

1963  The U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act, a sweeping set of laws designed to protect the environment from air pollution. It was the inaugural legislation to place pollution controls on the automobile industry.   

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1239  Kujo yoritsugu: Japanese shogun   

1267  Emperor go-uda of japan: Emperor go-uda of japan (d. 1324)   

1493  Philippus a paracelsus: Swiss physician/alchemist (liber paramixum)   

1554  Ernst of bayern: Prince/bishop of liege/archbishop of cologne   

1619  Ruprecht: Prince of palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician   

1619  Prince rupert of the rhine: Commander in the english civil war   

1632  Anthony wood: English antiqurian   

1638  Johann ulrich sultzberger: Composer   

0535  Emperor ankan of japan: Emperor ankan of japan (b. 466)   

0695  Begga: Ancestress of the carolingians/saint,   

0942  William longsword: William longsword   

1187  Gregory viii: [alberto de morra], italian pope (1187),   

1195  Death of Boudouin v: Count of hainault/flanders (boudouin viii),   

1213  Jean de matha: French saint,   

1273  Death of Rumi: Rumi (b.1207)   

1471  Isabella of portugal: Duchess of burgundy,