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★24 Apr 1933
Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

★07 Sep 1936
The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo in Australia.

★06 Mar 1943
World War II: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek Resistance's growth.

★22 Jan 1957
New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known as the "Mad Bomber", for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughout the city.

★21 Apr 1962
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle.

★07 Mar 1965
African-American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday.

★20 Feb 1970
The Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province, now one of the largest Buddhist temples in Thailand, was founded.

★05 Mar 1975
Computer hobbyists in Silicon Valley held the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, whose members would go on to have great influence on the development of the personal computer.

★06 Mar 1984
In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signaled the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.

★12 Aug 1990
American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered near Faith, South Dakota, U.S.

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