Person report

★15 Mar 1943
World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov.

★06 Jan 1953
The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.

★12 Oct 1960
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in response to Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong's assertion of Soviet colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.

★02 Jan 1963
Vietnam War: The Viet Cong won its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.

★14 Jun 1966
The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books.

★10 Nov 1972
Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

★08 Mar 1979
Images taken by Voyager I proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.

★30 Oct 1983
As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected President of Argentina.

★24 Jan 1989
American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in Florida after confessing to the murders of 30 young women.

★12 Mar 1989
Tim Berners-Lee issued the first proposal for what would become the World Wide Web, when he wrote a document to CERN with details of an information-management system.

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