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The strategic necessity to widen the narrow land corridor feeding the starving inhabitants of Leningrad compelled the Soviet Red Army to launch a massive offensive on February 10, 19...
On February 9, 1941, the Royal Navy's Operation Grog bombarded Genoa, including the unexploded shell strike at the Cathedral of Sa...
1944: World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, kil...
1941: The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs...
1996: Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, k...
1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden,...
1952: The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of...
1945: Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance mov...