Person report

★13 Mar 1943
The Holocaust: Nazi troops began the final liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto in Poland, sending about 2,000 Jews to the Płaszów labor camp, with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent to Auschwitz.

★19 Nov 1943
The Holocaust: Inmates at the Janowska concentration camp near what is now Lviv, Ukraine, staged a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidated the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.

★20 Jan 1945
World War II: Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia, an operation which took nearly two months to complete.

★18 Jan 1956
Navvab Safavi, Iranian Shia cleric and founder of Fada'iyan-e Islam group, was executed.

★06 Aug 1956
DuMont, one of the world's first television networks, aired its last program.

★05 Feb 1958
A Mark 15 nuclear bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia, after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.

★01 Nov 1959
After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.

★11 Apr 1963
Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than only to Catholics.

★01 Jan 1965
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which later helped the country become a republic, was founded.

★11 Mar 1966
Indonesian President Sukarno signed the Presidential Order Supersemar, giving General of the Army Suharto the authority to restore order during the recent mass killings.

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