1768 The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway (rediscovered 1974)
1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington.
1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews.
1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.
1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
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