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1932 – The famous Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens. [16] 1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force ...
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Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless. 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
Famous deaths by cause; Guerrilla movements; Historians (by subfield) Historical anniversaries; Historical sites; Inventors killed by their own inventions; Missing treasure; Defunct buildings ; Roman sites. Spain; UK; World records in chess; Time periods: On this day (December 31) Months; This Year (2024) By year; By decade, century, or ...
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.; 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
1923 – HachikÅ, Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner (d. 1935) 1924 – Bobby Limb, Australian comedian, actor, and bandleader (d. 1999) 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer (d. 1984) [25] 1927 – Richard Connolly, Australian hymnodist (d. 2022) [26] 1927 – Vedat Dalokay, Turkish architect and a former mayor of ...
Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History; Internet Movie Database: This Day in Movie History