Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
- World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
- World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
- Électricité de France, the world’s largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
- India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
- U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
- Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
- South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
- A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
- The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
- The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
- A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
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- Gemini 1 (unmanned test flight) launched.
- BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
- Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
- At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old record.
- Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
- Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
- The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
- Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
- War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
- Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
- Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
- The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
- The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham
