Person report

★12 Nov 1948
Former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes alongside generals Iwane Matsui, Akira Mutō and Kenji Doihara.

★03 Oct 1951
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the National League pennant.

★22 Feb 1957
The President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem survived a Viet Cong assassination attempt by a gunman in Buôn Ma Thuột.

★03 Feb 1971
New York City Police officer Frank Serpico, who had reported police corruption to the department and the press, was shot and wounded under questionable circumstances.

★02 Jan 1976
The Gale of January 1976 began, which resulted in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, leading to at least 82 deaths.

★28 Mar 1979
British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the "Winter of Discontent".

★29 Feb 1980
La Bougie du Sapeur, a humorous French newspaper that is published only on leap days, printed its first issue.

★18 Nov 1987
In London, an underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station.

★04 Apr 1988
Governor of Arizona Evan Mecham was removed from office after being convicted in his impeachment trial.

★11 Sep 1992
The eye of Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.

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