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Historical Event(s)
– World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
– World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
– Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
– World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
– 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.
– World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has “fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany”.
– World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
– The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
– World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
Who Were Born On ?
– Vincent Foster Jr., American lawyer (d. 1993)
– Paul Newton, British musician
– Jasper Carrott, British comedian
– Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (d. 2008)
– Bunker Roy, Indian Social Activist and Educator
– Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
– Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
– Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese Red Army Founder
– Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
– Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer