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★29 Apr 1945
The Holocaust: The Seventh U.S. Army liberated Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, and allegedly wounded and killed German prisoners of war.

★10 Nov 1945
Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya.

★15 Jan 1947
The brutalized corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the US, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.

★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.

★12 Aug 1950
Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 captured U.S. Army prisoners of war.

★20 Dec 1951
Experimental Breeder Reactor I near Arco, Idaho, U.S., became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it became able to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs.

★14 Nov 1960
Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first black children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.

★07 Apr 1972
Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.

★02 Apr 1982
Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War.

★30 Jun 1987
The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar coin, commonly known as the Loonie.

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