Person report

★11 Aug 1945
Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles engaged in a pogrom, which resulted in one dead and five wounded victims.

★29 Oct 1956
Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.

★20 Nov 1969
A group of Native American activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

★17 Mar 1973
Slava Veder took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

★24 Mar 1976
Military leaders in Argentina led by Jorge Rafael Videla deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, established a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process, and began state-sponsored violence against dissidents known as the Dirty War.

★17 Jun 1985
On board Space Shuttle Discovery, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud became the first Arab, the first Muslim, and the first astronaut of royal blood to fly in outer space.

★13 Sep 1985
Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling and most influential video games of all time, was first released for the NES in Japan.

★05 Apr 1986
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, killing 3 people and injuring 229 others.

★23 Mar 1989
Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited.

★02 Sep 1992
An estimated magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Nicaragua was the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.

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