1940 FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.
1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.
1974 US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters.
1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon.
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