Person report

★05 Dec 1933
Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.

★02 Sep 1935
The Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys, killing at least 423 people.

★26 Nov 1940
The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.

★30 Oct 1950
Blanca Canales led the Jayuya Uprising against the Puerto Rican government supported by the United States.

★24 Nov 1950
The "Storm of the Century", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.

★10 Mar 1952
Facing likely electoral defeat, former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control.

★14 Jul 1958
Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.

★21 Jul 1960
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the prime minister of Ceylon, becoming the world's first democratically elected female head of government.

★29 Oct 1966
Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.

★20 Oct 1967
Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject at Six Rivers National Forest in California who they claimed was a Bigfoot.

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