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President Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his flight to Morocco, the fisrt time a president has visited another country during wartime.
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Frank Sinatra debuts his famous song "Your Hit Parade" on the radio
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Richard James invented the slinky
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Silly putty was invented by James Wright
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Robert De Niro was born in New York City on this day, his parents were Virginia and Robert Sr.
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Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invent the aqualung.
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Nazi leaders decided to close the killing camps that were built specifically to exterminate Jews
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Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
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Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives.
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Mohtama Ghandi is freed from prison unconditionally for the first time
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Sonderkomnando blow up a crematorium in Auschwitz
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Chromatography is invented by AJP. Martin and R.L.P Synge, enabling chemical anaylsis of insulin.
