Person report

★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.

★16 May 1925
The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.

★07 Sep 1927
American inventor Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first images using his all-electronic television system.

★19 Aug 1934
A German referendum supported the recent merging of the posts of Chancellor and President, consolidating Adolf Hitler's assumption of supreme power.

★24 Nov 1943
World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644.

★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.

★07 Oct 1944
The Holocaust: When Sonderkommando members in Auschwitz learned that they were due to be killed, they staged a revolt and although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.

★04 Jul 1950
The United States' anti-communist propaganda source Radio Free Europe made its first broadcast aimed at Czechoslovakia.

★29 Jul 1950
Korean War: U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment troops concluded four days of shootings of civilians, sparked by fears that columns of refugees might contain North Korean spies.

★27 Jul 1953
An armistice was signed wide demilitarized zone across the Korean Peninsula.

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