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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
– World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
– World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
– Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
– Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.”
– World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
– 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
– World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
– World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
Who Were Born On ?
– Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990)
– Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
– Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
– Roger McDonald, Australian writer
– Bill Baxley, American politician
– Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
– Dario Gradi, Italian-born English football manager
– Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
– Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
– J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)