Person report

★24 Mar 1882
German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

★12 Oct 1890
The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage.

★11 Dec 1907
The original Parliament House in Wellington, New Zealand, was destroyed by fire.

★21 May 1924
University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murdered a 14-year-old boy in a thrill killing out of a desire to commit a perfect crime.

★26 Mar 1939
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.

★06 May 1941
American entertainer Bob Hope performed the first of his many shows for the United Service Organizations.

★28 Mar 1946
The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for international control of nuclear weapons.

★15 Feb 1949
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank, the location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

★25 Jun 1950
The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.

★09 Mar 1957
The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake strikes Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.

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