Person report

★26 Jun 1907
Organised by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach, getting away with 341,000 rubles.

★17 May 1914
Under the Protocol of Corfu, Albania officially recognized the area of Northern Epirus as an autonomous self-governing region.

★30 Jan 1939
In a speech to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler threatened the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe".

★07 May 1940
A three-day debate began in the British House of Commons, which resulted in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill.

★04 Jun 1942
The Battle of Midway, a major battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll.

★22 Sep 1948
Led by Gail Halvorsen, the U.S. Army Air Forces began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

★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.

★27 Apr 1949
In response to the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy, the Philippine House of Representatives passed a bill banning Australians from the country.

★18 Feb 1957
Kenyan independence leader Dedan Kimathi, who spearheaded the Mau Mau Uprising, was executed by British authorities, who saw him as a terrorist.

★10 Jun 1957
Led by John Diefenbaker, the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election, bringing an end to 22 years of Liberal Party rule.

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Facts vedr. Lawcock.

Som du jo nok VED er Jack et kæ         lenavn. han er fø         dt i Rotherham og DØ         BT JOHN.

Hans foræ         ldre var: William Ernest Lawcock, og Lydia Emily Clifford.