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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
– Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
– The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
– World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
– World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.
– World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
– The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
– World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
– World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (d. 2009)
– Mike Marshall, American baseball player
– Charles Gibson, American television journalist
– Raffaella Carrà, Italian TV presenter
– Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
– Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
– Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
– Gene Watson, American country singer
– Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
– Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)