Person report

★29 Aug 1930
The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.

★02 Aug 1932
At the California Institute of Technology, Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter when he discovered the positron.

★28 Feb 1939
In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor.

★09 Jul 1943
World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily, a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.

★11 Jan 1946
Albania was proclaimed the People's Republic of Albania, with Enver Hoxha as the de facto head of state.

★03 Nov 1948
The Chicago Daily Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.

★21 Oct 1950
Korean War: The Battle of Yongju began as British and Australian troops of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade engaged in heavy fighting with North Korean forces.

★15 Sep 1963
A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.

★17 Nov 1968
NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.

★12 Aug 1969
The Troubles: Riots erupted in the Bogside area of Derry, spreading across much of Northern Ireland.

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