Person report

★11 Aug 1929
The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.

★27 Feb 1933
The Reichstag building in Berlin, home of the German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany.

★27 May 1935
The United States Supreme Court ruled in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.

★01 Jun 1943
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers.

★12 Aug 1952
Thirteen Jewish poets in Moscow were executed for espionage based on false confessions.

★02 Feb 1963
113 alleged communists were arrested and detained without trial by Singapore's security agencies.

★04 Nov 1964
Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK and secretly exiled to Turkey.

★14 Mar 1972
Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for his translation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago after it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, was killed in a mysterious explosion.

★28 Jul 1976
An earthquake registering 7.6 Mw, one of the deadliest in history, devastated Tangshan, China, and killed at least 240,000 people.

★25 Dec 1990
British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.

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