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** WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.
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** WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender.
** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.
** WWII – Winter War: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
** WWII – Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.
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** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.
** WWII: The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south China.
** WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
** WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.
** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.
** WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U. S. Army bus.
** WWII: Over 500 Japanese prisoners-of-war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra POW Camp.
** WWII: A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.
** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.
** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.
** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.
** WWII: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
** WWII – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two.
** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.
** WWII: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.
** WWII: Korea gains independence following Japan's surrender.
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** Gent-Dampoort Station: an intercity train station with connections to Sint-Niklaas, Antwerp, Kortrijk and Eeklo.
** Gentbrugge Station: a regional train station in between the two main train stations, Sint-Pieters and Dampoort.
** Wondelgem Station: a regional train station with connections to Eeklo once an hour.
** Drongen Station: a regional train station in the village of Drongen with only a limited number of trains a day.
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** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.
** An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
** Four African-American youths ( Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey ) board an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City.
** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.
** The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.
** In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
** A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François ; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
** A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
** A commuter train collision in Chicago kills 45, injures hundreds.
** Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.
** The Battle of Broken Hill, a train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, in Australia.
** A level crossing collision between a train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany kills 94 people, mostly children.
** At least 150 killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
** A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
** Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as 2 trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
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