The transitional interim government of the Dominion of India was inaugurated.
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The left wing Democratic Party won a majority in Cambodia's first election.
The Greek population voted to retain the Greek monarchy. The election made the front page in cartoon form of the Rocky Mountain News.
Hawaiian sugar workers went on strike.
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The Soviet Union and Afghan government signed a Pact of Neutrality and Non-Aggression.
General Yang Sen seized the SS Wanhsien for a second time in a week, and captured a second ship. The HMS Cockchafer lacked sufficient bluejackets to intervene, so it radioed for help.
Egyptian soldiers fired into a crowed of Muslims Najadis, killing 25 of them, following a protest that began when the Egyptians were playing music while carrying the Mahmal through the holy city of Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage, to which the Najadis took offense.
It's often forgotten in the West that Islam is far more internally divided than Christianity, a fact that's aided by the fact that there is no central head of Islam.
The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie was formed for stamp collecting and other branches of philately in at Castagnola in Switzerland.
It's the oldest such organization in the world.
Princess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, 74, former Queen Consort of Greece from 1867 to 1913 as the wife of King Geórgios I, and briefly regent for one month in 1920, died in exile in Rome.
Congress was getting ready to go home.
The Greek Parliament decided that the official language of Greece would be Demotic Greek, "Demotiki", the modern colloquial form of the Greek language, rather than "Katharevousa" an updated version of Ancient Greek. The latter had been the official form.
The Greek language question (γλωσσικό ζήτημα) had been going on since the 19th Century.
The British fishing trawler Arctic Corsair rammed the Icelandic Coat Guard vessel ICGV Óðinn.
The ship continued to serve until 2006, and appears as a US vessel in Flags of our Fathers. It's presently a museum ship.
Muhammed Ali barely clung on to his heavyweight title in a fight against Jimmy Young in Landover, Maryland.
Both boxers health declined enormously after their boxing careers, due to their boxing careers. Young died at age 56.
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7,000 Allied soldiers served warrants on Nazi officials. Ausgezeichnet!
The first Greek elections since 1936 took place, with the Communist Party of Greece refusing to participate.
Russia, as a political subdivision of the USSR, paid its U.N. dues of $1,725,000, under the thesis that the USSR had multiple representation in the UN.
Trump would probably support an effort of Russia not to pay, which was feared at the time, sending the leader of the nation a Я люблю тебя, Дональд note, like he does in an implied way to the current leader of Russia constantly.
What's up with that?
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort became yet another World War Two senior officer to die following the war, albeit his death was due to liver cancer.
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Billy Mitchell's troubles hit the front page.
Beer in Chicago did as well.
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Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 22, 1925: Follyology?: Greece demands Bulgaria pay an indemnity of 2 million French francs gold, which is the equivalent of some money, for what they describe as ...
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Billy Mitchell was in trouble:
Yikes.
He was referring to the Shenandoah Incident and the recent Navy long distance flight to Hawaii. I didn't really cover either. I should have, as this was a big event.
The Spanish broke the siege at Tétouan.
The Byzantine cross appeared in the sky over Athens during an old calendar service of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the All-Honourable and Life-giving Cross of our Savior. The Orthodox Church was being repressed by the Greek government at the time.
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L'Osservatore Romano printed a long list of Fascist offenses against Catholics.
Italy announced a new law providing that any newspaper publishing attacks on the government that were "too strong and too frequent" would receive two warnings, after which the paper would no longer be recognized.
Mikis Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης), Greek composer known for Zorba the Greek's score, was born.
The Treaty of Varkiza was signed in which Greek resistance agreed to disarm and relinquish control of all the territory it occupied in exchange for legal recognition, free elections, and the removal of Nazi collaborators from the armed forces and police, which seems reasonable enough.
Greek politics had been a mess for years, and would continue to be for many more years.
The Japanese executed Antonio Villa-Real, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in the Philippines.
Peru declared war on Germany and Japan.
A tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama killed 45 people.
Himmler appeared on the cover of Time magazine, in an illustration depicting him as a death's head.
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The 3d Army and 30 Corps joined near St. Hubert.
He charged 30 yards through hip-deep snow to knock out a machinegun and its 3-man crew with grenades, saving his platoon from being decimated and allowing it to continue its advance from an open field into some nearby woods. The platoon's advance through the woods had only begun when a machinegun supported by riflemen opened fire and a Tiger Royal tank sent 88mm. shells screaming at the unit from the left flank. S/Sgt. Gammon, disregarding all thoughts of personal safety, rushed forward, then cut to the left, crossing the width of the platoon's skirmish line in an attempt to get within grenade range of the tank and its protecting foot troops. Intense fire was concentrated on him by riflemen and the machinegun emplaced near the tank. He charged the automatic weapon, wiped out its crew of 4 with grenades, and, with supreme daring, advanced to within 25 yards of the armored vehicle, killing 2 hostile infantrymen with rifle fire as he moved forward. The tank had started to withdraw, backing a short distance, then firing, backing some more, and then stopping to blast out another round, when the man whose single-handed relentless attack had put the ponderous machine on the defensive was struck and instantly killed by a direct hit from the Tiger Royal's heavy gun. By his intrepidity and extreme devotion to the task of driving the enemy back no matter what the odds, S/Sgt. Gammon cleared the woods of German forces, for the tank continued to withdraw, leaving open the path for the gallant squad leader's platoon.
The 25th Infantry Division, reinforced by an armored group, landed at Lingayen to reinforce the beachhead. Heavy kamikaze attacks occurred and many smaller ships were damaged.
Aircraft from the US 3d Fleet sank 25 ships and damaged 13 more from Japanese convoys off of Indochina. On the same day a German coastal convoy lost at least 3 or 4 of the 8 ships in it in a British air attack off of southern Norway.
The HMS Thane, an escort carrier, was sunk in the Irish Sea by the U-1172.
The Dekemvriana came to an end.
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The US commenced the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf with a naval bombardment that would last six days. The Japanese responded with kamikaze attacks.
British commandos and Indian Army troops made a nearly unopposed landing at the Burmese island of Akyab.
The Battle of Bure, a British attack in the Battle of the Bulge, commenced.
General Nikolaos Plastiras became Prime Minister of Greece.
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The German 5th Panzer Army made an attempt to encircle Bastogne. The U.S. 3d Army attacked towards Houffalize.
King George II of Greece proclaimed a regency and appointed Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens to the role.
General Leslie Groves reported that two atomic bombs would be ready for testing by the summer of 1945.
Part I of the Sergei Eisenstein's Russian epic film Ivan the Terrible premiered. Part II would not be released until 1958, as it was banned. Eisenstein died in 1948 and a planned Part III was accordingly never made.
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