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Diamond is a city in north central Newton County, Missouri, United States, located southeast of Joplin. The population was 831 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missour…
In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument…
Rome, along with Vatican City, was bombed several times during 1943 and 1944, primarily by Allied and to a smaller degree by Axis aircraft, before the city was liberated by the All…
World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. World War II …
World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Frans Thomas Koppelaar is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr. R…
Hervé Villechaize, French actor (died 1993)
Richard Anthony Sterban is an American singer. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. In 1972, he joined the country and gospel quartet the Oak Ridge Boys, in which he sings bass.
Richard Sterban, American country and gospel bass singer
Gordon West was an English professional football goalkeeper. He won three international caps in a career that included a long stint at Everton.
Gordon West, English footballer (died 2012)
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and later, the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies…
World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. World War II …
World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. World War II …
World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is…
The Massacres of Mousiotitsa refer to Nazi war crimes perpetrated in the summer of 1943 by soldiers of the 1st Mountain Division in the village of Mousiotitsa, Greece, during its o…
World War II: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of…
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boa…
World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000…
Anthony Fitzgerald, known professionally as Tony Christie, is an English musician and singer. He found prominence in the early 1970s with successful singles including "Las Vegas", …
Tony Christie, English singer-songwriter and actor
Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, …
Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
Helmut Marko is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from 1971 to 1972. In endurance racing, Marko won the 24 Hou…
Helmut Marko, Austrian race car driver and manager
Aryeh Bibi is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2009 and 2013.
Aryeh Bibi, Iraqi-born Israeli politician
Duane David Allen is an American singer and songwriter, who had formal training in both operatic and quartet singing before becoming a member of the Oak Ridge Boys in 1966. Allen i…
Duane Allen, American country singer
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: Operation Tidal Wave, also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian…
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered ar…
The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many eng…
World War II: After the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, Lt. John F.…
The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Barksdale…
World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
The First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant, was a highly secret military conference held during World War II by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United S…
World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King…
Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. As general secretary of SOGAT from 1985 until 1991, she was "the first wo…
Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, English union leader and politician (died 2018)
Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE is a British academic, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 t…
Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, English lawyer and academic