Person report

★15 Jan 1934
At least 10,700 people died when an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.

★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.

★27 Mar 1945
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt shipping.

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

★10 Sep 1946
While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, experienced what she later described as "the call within the call", directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them".

★21 Mar 1963
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California—one of the world's most notorious and best known prisons—was closed.

★15 Jan 1967
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.

★08 Apr 1968
BOAC Flight 712 had an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was later awarded a posthumous George Cross for heroism.

★17 Mar 1969
Golda Meir became the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

★13 Jun 1981
English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.

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