This Day In History
1939
World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1943
Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
1945
World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa.
1948
The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1994
Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
2003
U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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