Person report

★01 Jan 1892
The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened, and over the course of its existence, processed 12 million immigrants to the United States.

★04 Jan 1909
British explorer Aeneas Mackintosh, a member of the Nimrod Expedition, escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.

★10 Jan 1917
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.

★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.

★11 Oct 1937
Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, arrived at Friedrichstraße station in Berlin to begin their tour of Germany.

★10 Feb 1940
Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.

★27 Mar 1941
Encouraged by the British Special Operations Executive, a group of pro-Western Serb-nationalist Royal Yugoslav Air Force officers planned and conducted a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.

★09 Mar 1944
World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.

★12 Aug 1952
Thirteen Jewish poets in Moscow were executed for espionage based on false confessions.

★14 Jul 1958
Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.

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