Person report

★06 Jan 1912
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift.

★11 Sep 1914
During the First World War, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.

★09 Oct 1914
World War I: The civilian authorities of Antwerp surrendered, allowing the German army to capture the city.

★08 Jun 1929
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.

★12 Dec 1936
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China was kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria.

★03 Jun 1940
Franz Rademacher, a Nazi government official, proposed that Madagascar should be made available for the resettlement of the Jews of Europe.

★14 Feb 1943
World War II: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's 5th Panzer Army launched a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.

★19 Oct 1943
Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing over 2,000 people, mostly Italian POWs.

★24 Sep 1946
Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, presented him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that would form the basis of the policy of containment.

★02 Jan 1963
Vietnam War: The Viet Cong won its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.

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