Person report

★23 Aug 1943
Second World War: The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.

★15 Jan 1951
Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

★30 Nov 1954
The first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object took place in Sylacauga, Alabama, U.S., when a meteorite crashed through a roof and hit a sleeping woman.

★29 Sep 1957
An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.

★26 Jan 1966
The three Beaumont children disappeared from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.

★06 Jul 1971
As a result of his visits to several Asian communist countries, Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's leader gave a speech on a number of Neo-Stalinist and socialist realist ideals, which became known as the July Theses.

★30 Mar 1972
Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the South Vietnamese Army as possible.

★11 Mar 1978
After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, members of Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with the Israel Police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.

★26 Aug 1980
Three men planted a bomb, which the FBI later described as the most complex improvised explosive device ever created, at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, U.S.

★07 Nov 1987
Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.

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