Person report

★04 Jan 1951
Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul.

★06 Sep 1952
A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.

★23 Oct 1956
The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building.

★02 Dec 1956
Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.

★21 Oct 1969
Siad Barre led Supreme Revolutionary Council forces in a military coup and established the Somali Democratic Republic.

★26 Apr 1970
The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being when its convention entered into force.

★06 Jun 1985
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for human experiments performed on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

★25 Jan 1990
Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.

★05 Jan 1991
Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the First South Ossetian war.

★16 Sep 1992
The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation.

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