Person report

★27 Apr 1945
The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway on the last day of the Second World War in Finland.

★08 Jun 1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by English writer George Orwell about life under the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania, was first published.

★15 May 1957
The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.

★30 Aug 1967
Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.

★20 Jun 1979
The execution of Bill Stewart, an American journalist, by Nicaraguan Guardia forces, was captured on tape, resulting in the rapid withdrawal of support for the Somoza regime by the United States.

★11 Dec 1981
Salvadoran Civil War: About 900 civilians were killed by the Salvadoran armed forces in an anti-guerrilla campaign.

★28 Jan 1984
Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.

★17 Jun 1985
On board Space Shuttle Discovery, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud became the first Arab, the first Muslim, and the first astronaut of royal blood to fly in outer space.

★03 Feb 1986
Steve Jobs purchase Pixar from Lucasfilm and it became an independent computer animation studio.

★15 May 1990
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction in Christie's New York office for US$82.5 million, at the time the world's most expensive painting.

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