Person report

★06 Nov 1939
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

★24 Nov 1941
Establishment of Theresienstadt Ghetto. Before its liberation in May 1945, 144,000 Jews passed through the ghetto; most were eventually murdered by the Nazis.

★01 Dec 1941
The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded.

★02 Aug 1947
A British South American Airways airliner crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.

★15 Jan 1951
Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

★25 Nov 1960
Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.

★06 Mar 1967
Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected to the United States.

★01 May 1974
Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War.

★09 Apr 1980
Iraqi philosopher, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, was executed by the regime of Saddam Hussein along with his sister, Amina Sadr bint al-Huda.

★18 Jan 1990
In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.

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