1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area.
1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance.
1933 Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers.
1942 An estimated 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin.
1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland.
1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.
1964 UK flies ˝ ton of Beatles wigs to the US
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