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Historical Event(s)
– World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
– World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
– Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
– The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
– World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
– Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
– World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
– Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Who Were Born On ?
– Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
– Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
– Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
– John Kay, German-born musician
– Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor
– Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter
– Jackie DeShannon, American singer
– Jan Boerstoel, Dutch writer and poet
– Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
– Jim Leyland, American baseball manager