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Tuesday, 30 June 2026
1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet. 
1945 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin.
1945 In Berlin, the unconditional surrender is ratified, marking an end to twelve and a half years of the Nazi Third Reich
1945 Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared.
1946 Candice Bergen, American actress is born.
1946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
1947 A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
1948 Bradman scores 146 Australia vs Surrey, 174 minutes, 15 fours
1948 Bradman scores 146 Aust v Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours
1948 Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81.
1949 West German constitution approved.
1950 American General MacArthur is recorded as becoming comander of the UN forces in Korea
1950 Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1950 Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced and we live to regret it.
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced
1951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40.
1952 Mad Magazine debuts Great Magazine sure wish I still had the inaugural issue, but mon garbaged it.
1957 Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75.
1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock.
1958 Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
1958 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore.
1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55.
1960 USSR and Cuba resume diplomatic relations
1960 Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88.
1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1961 The inaugural practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX
1961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
1962 London trolley buses go out of service.
1962 The inaugural Atlas Centaur Launch.
1963 "Dr No" premieres in US 007 reigns supreme for over 40 years.
1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression.
1963 Navy ships evacuate 2279 civilians from Haiti during crisis.
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