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The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pi...
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Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East ...
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The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
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The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a numbe...
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The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of t...
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The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterran...
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World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
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The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it l...
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