Person report

★05 May 1904
Pitcher Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of professional baseball.

★19 Mar 1911
Socialist German politician Clara Zetkin established the first International Women's Day.

★19 Jan 1915
World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk.

★25 Jan 1917
Serving as an armed merchant cruiser, HMS Laurentic was sunk by German mines off the northern coast of Ireland, resulting in 354 deaths.

★10 Feb 1919
The Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened as a counterpart to the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.

★31 May 1921
A large-scale race riot began in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., in which the wealthiest African-American community in the United States, the Greenwood District, was destroyed by fire.

★29 Sep 1923
The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under Abdullah I.

★18 Aug 1940
Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, wherein both sides lost more aircraft combined on this day than at any other point during the campaign.

★07 Dec 1942
Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of Bordeaux in German-occupied France.

★25 May 1944
The Wehrmacht and their collaborationist allies launched Operation Rösselsprung, a failed attempt to assassinate the Yugoslav Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito.

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