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1940 Singles record charts inaugural published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1. 
1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress.
1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training.
1942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle.
1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question adm Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
1944 Abortive attempt on Hitler's life by a group of Nazi officers.
1944 Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life.
1944 Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71.
1945 Arthur Seccull, S Africa cricketer (Test v England 1896), dies.
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premiers on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein Jordan's King assassinated in Jerusalem
1951 King Abdullah of Jordan was assassinated by a Palestinian extremist while entering a mosque in the Arab sector of east Jerusalem.
1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem
1954 Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident.
1954 Two-and-a-half months after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam, France agreed to recognize Vietnamese sovereignty at the Geneva Conference
1954 Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52.
1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence.
1956 USS Thetis Bay (CVHA 1), inaugural helicopter assault carrier, was commissioned at San Francisco, Formerly CVE 90, Thetis Bay was converted to operate helicopters and to accommodate 1000 Marine combat troops to be flown ashore in the vertical development tactics of amphibious assault
1956 Ken Burn, cricketer (Tasmanian rep on 1890 Ashes tour, 2 Tests), dies
1957 Phil Hanna singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
1958 Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69.
1959 Harry Fox II, dies at 77.
1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; inaugural living organisms to return from space
1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
1964 The inaugural surfin' record to go #1-Jan and Dean's "Surf City"
1965 46.18 cm (18.18") of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
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