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The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned.
World War II: Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
World War I: Hit by ground fire, French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (pictured) landed his aircraft behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner by German forces.
World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (born 1925)
World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
World War II: German and Italian forces began a large-scale counter-insurgency operation in occupied Yugoslavia.
The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American wrestler and promoter, co-founded International World Class Championship Wrestling (died 2013)
World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.