Person report

★26 Jul 1936
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, dedicated to the Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War, was unveiled near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France.

★29 Dec 1940
The Blitz: The Luftwaffe conducted a major night bombing raid on the British capital, beginning what was later called the "Second Great Fire of London".

★29 Mar 1941
The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.

★07 Aug 1942
World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal Campaign with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

★13 Jan 1953
An article published in Pravda accused nine eminent doctors in Moscow of taking part in a plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.

★30 Nov 1953
Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.

★10 Apr 1959
Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.

★09 May 1961
In a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".

★28 Feb 1963
24th ward alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office, the last elected official assassinated in Chicago to date.

★10 Apr 1963
The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank with all hands lost during deep-diving tests in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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