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★29 May 1900
N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.

★24 Apr 1915
The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople.

★04 Mar 1918
The United States Navy suffered its largest non-combat loss of life when the collier USS Cyclops set sail from Barbados to Baltimore and was never seen again, presumably disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle.

★21 Nov 1918
Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Christians in Lwów.

★11 Apr 1921
Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan.

★25 Nov 1940
The de Havilland Mosquito and the Martin B-26 Marauder, two of the most successful military aircraft in World War II, both made their first flights.

★27 Apr 1941
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization.

★28 Mar 1942
Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces disabled the port of Saint-Nazaire.

★12 Dec 1942
World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.

★11 Mar 1946
Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.

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