1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney.
1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp.
1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.
1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint.
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