Person report

★23 Sep 1889
Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in Kyoto, Japan, to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards.

★25 Mar 1903
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition anchored in the South Orkney Islands with the purpose of establishing the first meteorological station in Antarctic territory.

★26 Jun 1906
The 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing competition, was held outside Le Mans.

★10 May 1940
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.

★12 May 1941
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

★12 Feb 1946
Black United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point that he lost his vision in both eyes, an incident that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.

★09 Apr 1947
Sixteen white and black men began a two-week journey in the American South, acting in defiance of local laws that enforced segregated seating on public buses.

★22 Jun 1948
Over 800 West Indian immigrants disembarked the British troopship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, England, becoming known as the "Windrush generation".

★18 Sep 1961
A plane crashed under mysterious circumstances near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others on board.

★31 Jul 1966
The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 people aboard.

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