Person report

Associations with people involving Sophie Winther

★06 Feb 1919
More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of U.S. World War I wage controls.

★21 Feb 1919
Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

★16 Nov 1938
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

★05 Dec 1939
The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was ousted and exiled in a republican coup, were buried after being repatriated.

★30 Aug 1942
Second World War: Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert Campaign, attacking the British Eighth Army's position near El Alamein, Egypt.

★16 Oct 1943
The Holocaust: The Gestapo conducted a raid on the Ghetto of Rome, capturing 1,259 members of the Jewish community, most of whom were sent to Auschwitz.

★16 Jan 1945
World War II: Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into the Führerbunker, where he would eventually commit suicide.

★25 Apr 1960
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

★22 Dec 1964
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the United States Air Force's long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft and the world's fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, made its first flight.

★04 Jun 1977
The Humboldt Park riot began in Chicago, resulting in three deaths, three cars in the Humboldt Park lagoon, and increased tension between the Chicago Police Department and the Puerto Rican community.

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