** Gustav Adolf Land

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** Geli Raubal commits suicide in Adolf Hitler's apartment.

** Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.

** Adolf Hitler concedes defeat in his underground Berlin bunker after learning Felix Steiner could not mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the Soviets who had just broken through Germany.

** Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker.

** Adolf Brand, German writer ( b. 1874 )

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

** Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler ( suicide ) ( b. 1912 )

** Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal ( d. 1962 )

** Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3 Israeli judges.

** While working as a spy for the police, Adolf Hitler is ordered to monitor the German Workers Party.

** Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1914 )

** Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch ( he serves only 8 months ).

** World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people ( recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum ).

** Erich Kempka, German chauffeur and bodyguard of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1975 )

** King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates and is later exiled.

** WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag.

** Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official ( executed ) ( b. 1906 )

** Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1959 )

** King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden ( b. 1882 )

** Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1918 )

** Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.

** Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler prohibits trade unions.

** Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland.

** The Reichstag passes a statement stating that Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler, s succesor as Führer should Hitler die in the middle of the Second World War. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring, s place should anything befall Göring.

** German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler ’ s orders to destroy it.

** Hamburg Radio announces that Hitler has died in battle, " fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism.

** Arthur Axmann, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader ( b. 1913 )

** Rita Haub / Heinrich Schreiber, " Alfred Delp-Held gegen Hitler " (" Alfred Delp – Hero Against Hitler "), Echter Verlag Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-429-02665-2

** William Patrick Hitler nephew of Adolf Hitler.

** For every non-empty set S there is a binary operation defined on S that makes it a group.

** Bosch EZF ignition system using dual distributors makes debut.

** A faster, fully hardware-based multiplier makes instructions such as MUL and IMUL several times as fast ( and more predictable ) than in the 80486 ; the execution time is reduced from 13 ~ 42 clock cycles down to 10 ~ 11 for 32-bit operands.

** The Subsidiary Board of Implementation ( SBI ) makes recommendations on policy and implementation issues to the COP and, if requested, to other bodies.

** The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U. S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.

** Nelson Mandela makes his " I Am Prepared to Die " speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.

** Craig Breedlove's jet-powered car Spirit of America goes out of control in Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and makes skid marks 9. 6 km long.

** Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.

** New voting laws in Sweden makes votes no longer dependent on taxable assets, each adult having one vote.

** The Comet Hale-Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.

** I Love Lucy makes its television debut on CBS.

** Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.

** French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first nonstop flight from Paris to London, in three hours.

** The locomotive Flying Scotsman ( British Railways No. 60103 ) makes its last scheduled run, before going into the hands of Alan Pegler for preservation.

** English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.

** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.

** Hurricane Opal makes landfall at Pensacola Beach, Florida as a Category 3 hurricane with winds.

** Space Shuttle Endeavor makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for a lost Space Shuttle.

** The comic strip FoxTrot makes its first appearance in US newspapers.

** The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner makes its first flight.

** The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate.

** Mae West makes a risque guest appearance on the NBC Chase and Sanborn Hour that eventually results in her being banned from radio.

** In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.

** The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.