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1941  Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter is born.   

1941  The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic   

1941  Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle   

1943  U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje   

1943  Admiral Donitz formally ends U-boat in Atlantic Ocean.   

1943  Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84.   

1944  Enver Hoxha is recorded as becoming head of Albania anti fascists.   

1944  Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark.   

1944  In this year, Major John Keefer Mahony (The Westminister Regiment(Motor)) claims the Victoria Cross at the Melfa River, Italy.   

1946  Transjordan (now known as Jordan) is recorded as becoming a kingdom, with King Abdulla Ibn Ul-Hussein as the new monarch.   

1948  The USSR stop road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West   

1948  Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78   

1951  Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal   

1951  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)   

1951  Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants   

1953  Cor Hermus, actor (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes), dies at 63   

1954  Dr Peter Murray Marshall is recorded as becoming inaugural black to head an AMA unit.   

1954  German airline Lufthansa forms.   

1954  IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour   

1954  The inaugural rocket attains 150 mile (241 km) altitude, White Sands NM.   

1956  2500th anniversary of the death of Buddha celebrated in India   

1956  Guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74.   

1957  Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan   

1957  Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia.   

1958  President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.   

1958  United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service   

1958  UP and International News Service merge into United Press International.   

1959  Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England   

1959  The inaugural house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)   

1959  John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71.   

1960  1 millionth Dutch telephone installed   

1961  27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS   

1961  Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit.   

1961  U S President Kennedy asks the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.   

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1522  John jewel: English bishop   

1544  William gilbert: Essex england, physicist (researcher into magnetism)   

1605  Nikon: [nikita minin], patriarch of russian-orthodox church   

1610  Giovanni battista chinelli: Composer   

1616  John maitland: Duke of lauderdale   

1619  Philips wouwerman(s): Dutch painter   

1650  John churchill: 1st duke of marlborough, english general strategist   

1671  Gian gastone de' medici: Grand duke of tuscany   

1144  Death of Petronella: Wife of earl floris ii the vette of holland/regent,   

1153  Death of David i: King of scotland,   

1351  Abu al-hasan 'ali: Sultan of morocco (b. circa 1297)   

1408  Taejo of joseon: Ruler of korea (b. 1335)   

1425  Murdoch stewart: 2nd duke of albany, scottish politician (b. 1362)   

1456  Death of Ambroise de loré: French military commander (b. 1396)   

1543  Nicolas copernicus: Astronomer,   

1612  Death of Robert cecil: 1st earl of salisbury/pm (1598-1612),