Person report

★27 Jun 1899
A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket until 2016.

★21 Jun 1921
Irish War of Independence: The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, was burned by British forces.

★02 Oct 1925
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image.

★25 Apr 1932
Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrates the carillon of the National War Memorial in New Zealand.

★25 Aug 1941
Second World War: Soviet, British and other Commonwealth armed forces invaded Iran to secure oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines for the USSR.

★09 Apr 1942
World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the Battle of Bataan on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines before beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to prison camps in the Bataan Death March.

★16 Aug 1942
During the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, president Jozef Tiso gave a speech describing Jews as "parasites" and "the eternal enemy".

★08 Jul 1947
After various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Force personnel in Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance weather balloon.

★13 Sep 1959
Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 impacted the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.

★01 Dec 1959
Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.

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