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★31 Aug 1939
Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.

★09 Aug 1944
Smokey Bear, the mascot of the United States Forest Service, made his debut on a poster, replacing Bambi.

★02 Sep 1946
The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.

★16 Oct 1964
With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power.

★18 May 1965
Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence for Israel in the Six-Day War against Syria, was publicly hanged after having been captured four months earlier.

★30 Oct 1965
English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially short minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.

★01 May 1974
Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War.

★07 Jun 1975
The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.

★13 May 1985
Eleven members of the American black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their house during a raid.

★13 May 1992
Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong in a public lecture in Changchun, Jilin province, China.

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