Person report

★14 Feb 1914
The animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was released and went on to have great influence on future animators such as the Fleischer brothers and Walt Disney.

★07 Jun 1917
First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.

★02 Aug 1920
Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn.

★22 Nov 1935
The China Clipper flying boat took off from Alameda, California, U.S., to become the first service to deliver airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean.

★23 Jun 1944
After a closely supervised visit by the Red Cross to Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Maurice Rossel reported that conditions there were "almost normal".

★30 Jul 1945
The Japanese submarine I-58 commanded by Mochitsura Hashimoto sank the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, killing around 300 crew in the last Japanese naval success of World War II.

★13 Jun 1952
Soviet warplanes shot down a Swedish military Douglas DC-3A-360 Skytrain carrying out signals intelligence gathering operations, which was followed by the shootdown of a Catalina flying boat searching for the Skytrain three days later.

★01 Dec 1955
In a key event in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

★21 Jun 1963
Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI.

★08 Feb 1965
After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and exploded, killing all 84 people on board.

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