Person report

★05 Dec 1939
The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was ousted and exiled in a republican coup, were buried after being repatriated.

★15 Aug 1942
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta, as part of an operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the Siege of Malta.

★02 Oct 1942
Second World War: HMS Curacoa was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from submarine attacks.

★09 Apr 1948
Fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.

★11 Oct 1950
A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use, only for it to be abandoned a year later.

★28 Apr 1965
Four days after the Dominican Civil War began, the United States invaded the country, aiming to prevent the development of what Lyndon Johnson saw as a possible second Cuban Revolution.

★12 Jan 1967
Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically frozen with intent of future resuscitation.

★30 Mar 1981
Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

★29 Jun 1985
The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe, a flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955.

★20 Dec 1987
The deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history occurred when the MV Doña Paz sank after colliding with an oil tanker on the Tablas Strait, in the Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,000 deaths.

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