1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.
1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary.
1955 US Submarine Nautilus begins first nuclear-powered test voyage.
1961 President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1972 Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland.
1980 Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb prematurely detonates on a passenger train near Belfast, kills three and injuring five (including the bombers)
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