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Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors. |
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Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70. |
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The first Grammy Awards are announced. |
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New TV channel ends BBC monopoly in the UK: Britain's first independent television station is on air, bringing advertisements to the airwaves for the first time. |
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World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in Lübeck Bay. |
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Italian partisans kill Mussolini:
Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy until his downfall in 1943, has been killed by partisans along with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and some close associates. |
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Celebrations as Rome is liberated:
The people of Rome crowd onto the streets to welcome the victorious Allied troops. |
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Italian dictator Mussolini quits: The Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, steps down as head of the armed forces and the government.
Allied troops invade mainland Italy: British troops land on mainland Europe four years to the day after war was declared on Germany. |
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Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. |
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Germany and Italy declare war on US: Hitler and Mussolini announce they are at war with America which retaliates with its own declaration of war on "the forces of savagery and barbarism".
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Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly land their Fokker T-2 aircraft in San Diego, California. This is the first non-stop transcontinental flight. It took nearly 27 hrs |
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Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin. |
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British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey. |
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The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet. |
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