Person report

★27 Aug 1942
Nazi troops and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police began systematically executing more than 14,000 people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarny in occupied Poland.

★02 May 1945
World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the German troops in Berlin, surrendered the city to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.

★25 Apr 1964
109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago.

★21 Jan 1968
Vietnam War: The Vietnamese People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.

★18 Oct 1968
At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23 years.

★13 Feb 1970
The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymous debut album, which is generally accepted as the first heavy metal album.

★08 Nov 1971
English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which would go on to be one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

★24 Nov 1976
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of the buildings in the area, with at least 4,000 casualties.

★16 Oct 1984
The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.

★20 Nov 1991
First Nagorno-Karabakh War: An Azerbaijani military helicopter carrying a peacekeeping mission team was shot down in Nagorno-Karabakh, disrupting ongoing peace talks.

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