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USSR agrees to charter provision on strategic areas and colonial peoples; Trusteeship Com unanimously adopts provision; scope discussed
Rules H R Bridges deportation order illegal; Justice Douglas writes majority opinion
US fliers to photograph all parts of country to provide strategical map in event of another war
Jap lines, Okinawa, shattered in gen US advance
8th Combat Team of 2d Marine Div, in action for first time, makes smashing breakthrough
1945Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska[†]
Radovan Karadžić is a Bosnian Serb former politician who served as the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. He was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
1945Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. She served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from 2011 to 2023. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s.
1945Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist[†]
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.
1945Peter Bardens, British keyboardist (died 2002)[†]
Peter Bardens was an English keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive rock group Camel. He played keyboards, sang, and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer. During his career, Bardens worked alongside Rod Stewart, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and Van Morrison. He recorded eleven solo albums.
1945The Smoke Tragedy left 355 workers dead in the underground copper mine of El Teniente, Chile.[†]
The 1945 El Teniente mining accident, known locally as the Smoke Tragedy, is the largest mining accident in metal extraction in the history of Chile and, as of 2005, worldwide. It happened on June 19, 1945, in Chile's El Teniente mine in the Andes, which belonged to Braden Copper Company, a subsidiary of Kennecott Copper Corporation, both of the United States. A total of 355 men died, largely because of a nearby fire whose smoke trapped the workers in tunnels and resulted in carbon monoxide poisoning. Another 747 men were injured by the smoke.