August 2, 1943 — The Japanese destroyer Amagiri rams and sinks US Navy PT-109
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, under the command of Lieutenant junior grade John F. Kennnedy, was one of 15 PT boats...
November 4, 2018
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February 10, 1944 — Peter Allen is born Peter George Woolnough
Born in Tenterfield, in country New South Wales, Peter George Woolnough was performing from an early age. In the 1960’s,...
October 29, 2018
April 29, 1945 — Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler in 1929, when she was only 17 years old. At the time, she was...
October 19, 2018
September 5, 1945 — Iva Toguri D’Aquino is arrested under suspicion of being “Tokyo Rose”
During the Second World War, Japanese propagandist and DJ Tokyo Rose broadcasted to American and Allied soldiers from somewhere behind...
October 4, 2018
August 13, 1946 — H. G. Wells dies
The man who basically invented the modern science fiction novel (Jules Verne himself insisted that this was the case), one...
September 29, 2018
June 5, 1947 — The Marshall Plan is announced
Named for then US Secretary of State George Marshall, the Marshall Plan is one of the largest foreign aid schemes...
September 25, 2018
September 14, 1947 — Jon Bauman born
Jon Bauman – better known to a generation of Americans as Bowser of Sha Na Na – hails from Brooklyn,...
September 22, 2018
July 5, 1948 — The National Health Service begins in the UK
Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan was a Welshman from Tredegar who rose through the union ranks to become Minister of Health in...
September 19, 2018
April 7, 1949 — “South Pacific” opens on Broadway
“South Pacific” was a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, based on James Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific”, an anthology...
September 9, 2018
August 10, 1949 — John George Haigh is executed for murder
The murderous career of John George Haigh is an object lesson in the importance of forensics in obtaining convictions. Haigh...
August 29, 2018
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