Person report

★27 Feb 1900
FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club, was founded.

★31 Mar 1910
Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.

★15 Jun 1920
Three African American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States.

★16 Aug 1920
Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit by a pitch and died the following day, becoming the only Major League Baseball player to die directly as a result of injuries sustained during a game.

★03 May 1942
Second World War: Japanese forces began invading Tulagi and nearby islands in the Solomon Islands, enabling them to threaten and interdict the supply and communication routes between the United States and Australia and New Zealand.

★23 Feb 1944
In response to an insurgency in Chechnya, the Soviet Union began the forced deportation of native Chechen and Ingush of North Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

★06 Nov 1944
The Hanford Atomic Facility in the U.S. state of Washington produced its first plutonium, and it would go on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal.

★08 Jun 1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life under the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.

★02 Jul 1962
The first Walmart store, now the largest company in the world by revenue, opened in Rogers, Arkansas, U.S.

★13 Jul 1962
In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismissed seven members of his Cabinet.

Historical data by Wikipedia Contributors CC BY-SA 3.0.