1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.
1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years.
1941 Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1945 British premier Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine.
1945 Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.
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