Person report

★08 May 1942
World War II: The Axis launched a major counteroffensive, turning the tide of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.

★05 Apr 1944
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.

★10 Jan 1946
The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.

★05 Sep 1977
NASA launched the robotic space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth.

★23 Jul 1982
During the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in Valencia, California, a helicopter crashed, killing three people and leading to new safety standards.

★14 Jul 1987
Over 100 mm of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and over C$220 million in damages.

★07 Dec 1987
A former airline employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss and the pilots and deliberately crashed the plane near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors.

★07 Dec 1988
A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people.

★04 Jun 1989
The People's Liberation Army violently cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving at least 241 dead and 7,000 wounded, and causing widespread international condemnation of the Chinese government.

★02 Oct 1990
A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, resulting in a total of 128 deaths.

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