1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first period 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.
1915 British fleet opens fire on Dardanelles coast.
1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin.
1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.
1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland/
1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.
1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines.
1964 UK flies ˝ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
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