Spouse
1912
Jun 30
| 1912 • The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. |
1940
Age: 27y
| 1940 • WWII: Second Armistice at Compiègne: The French Third Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice ending the Battle of France in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to agree the Armistice with Germany in 1918. This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and west under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany) and a southern Zone libre, Vichy France. |
1949
Jul
Age: 37y
| 1949 • Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery in Toronto. |
1955
Aug 24
Age: 43y
birth of childMari K McGee |
| 1955 • January 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). |
2000
Dec 30
Age: 88y
| 2000 • The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely. |
2001
Oct 10
Age: 89y
| 2001 • The submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii. |