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Sunday, 29 March 2026
1943 US inaugural Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia. 
1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1944 HMCS Valleyfield torpedoed.
1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe
1945 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII
1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated.
1945 Nazi Generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands
1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano).
1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22.
1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as inaugural black governor of Virgin Islands.
1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands.
1946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed.
1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt.
1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.
1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1951 Warner Baxter, dies at 62.
1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances.
1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile
1953 Ormerod Pearse, cricketer (55 runs and 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu.
1954 US, Great-Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France and Great-Britain
1955 West Europe Union established.
1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, results in the deaths of 300.
1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27810 meters
1958 Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances.
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