Person report

★07 Apr 1945
World War II: American forces sank Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, during Operation Ten-Go.

★11 Mar 1946
Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.

★15 Aug 1947
Jawaharlal Nehru took office as the Prime Minister of India, a post he held for 18 years.

★11 Sep 1965
Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.

★18 Jan 1977
The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.

★17 Feb 1978
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the La Mon restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.

★14 Mar 1978
Israeli–Lebanese conflict: The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing PLO troops north up to the Litani River.

★14 May 1980
Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador were attacked by both Salvadoran Armed Forces and the Honduran military, resulting in at least 300 deaths.

★02 Apr 1984
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be launched into space.

★29 Aug 1984
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

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