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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  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.   

1958  Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs.   

1958  Ruth Carol Taylor is inaugural African-American woman hired as flight attendant.   

1958  1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY.   

1959  Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi)   

1960  Jack Paar walks off his TV show   

1961  Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black.   

1961  Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem   

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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  Gregory ii: Greek-syrian pope,   

0821  Death of Benedict of aniane: Saint,   

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

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

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

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

1503  Elizabeth of york: Consort of king henry vii,