Person report

★07 Nov 1917
World War I: British forces captured Gaza when the Ottoman garrison abandoned the area.

★01 Oct 1918
First World War: British and Arab troops captured Damascus from the Ottoman Empire.

★15 Apr 1922
U.S. senator John B. Kendrick introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal involving U.S. president Warren G. Harding's administration, leading to the Teapot Dome scandal.

★19 Jan 1930
Racial violence occurs in Watsonville, California against Filipino American farm workers.

★07 Jul 1937
The Peel Commission published a report stating the British Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended the partition of Mandatory Palestine into two states.

★09 Jul 1943
World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily, a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.

★28 Nov 1966
Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.

★27 Apr 1967
The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately attending.

★20 Dec 1987
The deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history occurred when the MV Doña Paz sank after colliding with an oil tanker on the Tablas Strait, in the Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,000 deaths.

★13 Nov 1992
The High Court of Australia ruled in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.

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