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... General. Metaxis dies aged 70. M. A. Korizis takes over.
1942: RAF Bomber Command mount an attack to sink the Tirpitz, while she is at anchor in Trondheim. The raid is unsuccessful as the Tirpitz survives unscathed.
1942: German forces capture Benghazi, along with a large quantity of supplies.
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Január 20.
337 - 361 CONSTANTIUS (Roman Empire)
Son of Constantine. Weaker than his father Constantine, he relied on his Church advisors and began a series of anti-Jewish decrees banning Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the circumcising of Christian or Pagan slaves, and protecting Jewish converts to Christianity.
1008 CALIPH HAKIM (Egypt)
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... with Stalin and calls for a second front at the earliest possible moment.
1942: Soviet counterattacks to dislodge German advance units near the Volga landing stage are unsuccessful.
1943: The Red Army captures Poltava.
1944: An RAF p... |
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... Romania)
Broke out as the ghetto was being liquidated. The women demanded that they be allowed to die as families rather then the men being taken away on their own. The Germans unsuccessfully tried shooting children to break up the demonstration. They finally capitulated and by the end of the month the community ceased to exist.
1941: Japanese begin war games at th... |
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... Romania)
Broke out as the ghetto was being liquidated. The women demanded that they be allowed to die as families rather then the men being taken away on their own. The Germans unsuccessfully tried shooting children to break up the demonstration. They finally capitulated and by the end of the month the community ceased to exist.
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| ... attended a party aboard Howard Hughes' yacht. Hughes was taken by Domergue and bought out her contract with Warner Bros., and signed her to a three picture contract with RKO. After an unsuccessful, long-delayed premiere in the film "Vendetta" (1950), Domergue left Hughes. She later freelanced in a number of films, including film noir "Where Danger Lives" (1950) (as a femme fatale ... |
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Július 25.
1100 July 25, HAIFA (Eretz Israel)
Jewish residents joined with the Fatimids of Egypt in defending the city. Tancred, who unsuccessfully attacked Haifa, was reprimanded for his lack of success and told that he made "a mockery of the God of the Christians." Once the city fell, the remaining Jews were massacred by the crusading forces.
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Held a press conference and denied church responsibility for not preventing the Kielce pogrom. Prior to the incident, Chief Rabbi David Kahane of Warsaw had tried unsuccessfully to get an audience with the cardinal for a pastoral letter against the anti-Semitic attacks. Hlond insisted that anti-Semitism was in part due to Jewish-supported communism.
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... aircraft from the Japanese 2nd Carrier Strike Force bomb Dutch harbor in the Aleutians as planned, damaging the islands fuel tanks and a US ship. US efforts to locate this force are unsuccessful. (More Info)
1943: The House of Commons rejects any lifting of the economic blockade against occupied Europe.
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