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The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People’s Budget
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom
World War I: The UK’s 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
📜 HISTORY🌍 INDIA
1914–1918 global conflict
Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
Nazi concentration camp in Germany (1933–1945)
World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
World War II: Airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
1945 humanitarian food drops over the German-occupied Netherlands by the Allies
World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
📜 WARS🌍 ITALY
German and Italian Fascist surrender document during WWII
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY
Post–World War II war crimes trials
Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
1952 aviation accident
The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
📜 SPACE🌍 GLOBAL
Television that conveys depth perception to the viewer
After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
American boxer and activist (1942–2016)
Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an attempt to cut off supplies to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia
Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES
1970s political scandal in the U.S.
Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnam-held Trường Sa Islands.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL
Combined military forces of Vietnam
Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. This happens after the Bombing of Tan Son Nhut Air Base.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
1975 American operation of Vietnam War
The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
Warship that serves as a seagoing airbase