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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
– Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
– Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
– World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
– World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
– The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
– World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
– World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
– King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
Who Were Born On ?
– Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
– Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
– Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
– Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
– Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
– Craig T. Nelson, American actor
– Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
– Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)
– Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago)
– Zoe Laskari, Greek actress