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1941  1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo).   

1941  Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63   

1942  "Archie" comic book debuts   

1942  On this day, the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, escape from the French port of Brest and make a mad dash up the English Channel to safety in German waters. Very embarrassing for the Royal Navy.   

1943  General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.   

1943  Ottawa imposes severe wartime gasoline rationing of 10 gallons a month for every private car.   

1943  Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany   

1944  German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy   

1944  U-424 sunk off Ireland.   

1944  German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy   

1944  Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies.   

1945  inaugural gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA.   

1945  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement during WWII   

1945  Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin.   

1945  1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA.   

1945  Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53   

1948  Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs West Indies, out for 140   

1948  John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland.   

1948  Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs England Port-of-Spain.   

1948  Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140.   

1948  Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50.   

1949  Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title   

1950  "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1.   

1951  In this year, Kwame Nkrumah claims inaugural parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana).   

1951  Marshall Teague drove a Hudson Hornet to victory on the beach oval of the 160-mile Daytona Grand National at Daytona Beach, Florida.   

1951  In this year, Kwame Nkrumah claims 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)   

1953  President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple   

1953  Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel   

1953  "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances   

1954  6th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden win.   

1954  6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden claims.   

1956  Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow.   

1957  KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting   

1958  Auto racer Marshall Teague died at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona.   

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1377  King ladislas of naples: King ladislas of naples (d. 1414)   

1380  Gianfrancesco poggio bracciolini: Italy, humanist   

1465  Elizabeth of york: London, consort of king henry vii   

1506  Juliana van stolberg: Engraver of nassau   

1535  Gregory xiv: [niccolo sfondrati], roman catholic pope (1590-91)   

1557  John wtenbogaert: Remonstrants theologist   

1568  Honoré d'urfé: French writer   

1649  William carstares: Scottish minister   

0641  Heraclius: Emperor of byzantium (610-641),   

0731  Death of Gregory ii: Greek-syrian pope,   

0821  Benedict of aniane: Saint,   

0824  Death of Paschal i: Italian pope (817-24),   

0867  Death of Theodora: The saint, beauty queen/empress of byzantine,   

1141  Hugo of st-victor: Philosopher/theologist/mystic,   

1160  Minamoto no yoshitomo: Japanese general (b. 1123)   

1503  Death of Elizabeth of york: Consort of king henry vii,