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Japanese attack US naval base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Major battle of World War II on the Eastern Front.
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Warsaw, Poland - Jewish resistence at the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland occupied by Germany,
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The 32nd president of the United States dies. Vice president Harry S. Truman takes over.
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Winston Churchill delivered the "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The "Iron Curtain" was the separation of Europe during the Cold War.
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Edwin Land created the first polaroid camera that self-develops.
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Nathuram Godse assassinated and killed Mohandas Gandhi in New Delhi, India.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an political organization whose goal was to "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". NATO still exists today.
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