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★03 Jan 1919
Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

★01 Jan 1928
Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, Boris Bazhanov, crossed the Iranian border and defected from the Soviet Union.

★21 Sep 1934
The Muroto typhoon, the strongest in Japanese history at the time, made landfall on the mainland, killing more than 3,000 and leaving around 200,000 homeless.

★06 Nov 1939
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

★20 Feb 1943
The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, some of the most widely distributed paintings ever produced, in support of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms".

★18 Sep 1948
Australia became the only cricket team to conduct a tour of England without losing a match.

★23 Apr 1951
American journalist William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.

★02 May 1964
Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.

★17 Mar 1973
Slava Veder took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

★29 Sep 1990
The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.

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