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** WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.
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** WWII: Forward elements of General Hoeppner's XVI Panzerkorps take up positions outside Warsaw.
** 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.
** George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII ( d. 2006 )
** 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: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.
** 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.
** and John
** Andronikos V Palaiologos ( c. 1400 – c. 1407 ), Co-Emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos
** Beheading of St. John the Baptist
** " Hello, John ," I said.
** John Vianney
** Obadiah, from John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible.
** John I ( 1316 )
** John II ( 1350 – 1364 )
** John I, also John II of France ( 1361 – 1363 )
** John II ( 1404 – 1419 )
** John I ( 1237 – 1286 )
** John II ( 1286 – 1305 )
** John III ( 1312 – 1341 )
** John IV ( 1341 – 1345 )
** John V ( 1364 – 1399 )
** John VI ( 1399 – 1442 )
** John IV ( 1415 – 1427 )
** John II ( 1453 – 1470 )
** John I, The Good or The One of Happy Memory 1385-1433
** John II, The Perfect Prince 1481-1495
** John III, the Pious 1521-1557
** John I, 6th Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Barcelos ( 1562 ).
** John II, 8th Duke of Braganza and 3rd Duke of Barcelos.
** Clavichord by John Christopher Jesse, Halberstadt, Germany, 1765
** John of Damascus
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