World War Two History (Part 4)

Events 301 - 329 of 329

• 1987-04-12 CBS' premiere of fact-based World War II drama "Escape from Sobibor"

• 1988-02-29 Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations
• 1988-06-06 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
• 1988-08-04 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
• 1988-12-19 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
• 1990-10-02 WW2 Allied nations cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
• 1991-06-04 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
• 1992-01-13 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II

• 1999-10-22 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
• 2000-05-02 Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
• 2002-05-11 Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.
• 2004-05-09 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya
• 2004-05-29 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 2005-10-30 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
• 2005-12-28 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.

• 2011-10-27 Royal Australian Navy announces discovery of wreck of a World War II submarine (likely Japanese) in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE
• 2015-12-28 Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation
• 2017-09-03 1.4 ton WWII bomb defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated, the largest postwar
• 2018-03-06 American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia's Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
• 2019-02-12 Vulcan Inc. announces the rediscovery near the Solomon Islands of World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which sank in 1942 with the loss of 140 lives.
• 2019-09-01 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80 year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw
• 2020-04-01 All England Lawn Tennis Club cancels Wimbledon for the first time since World War II because of the COVID-19 pandemic; entire grass-court season abandoned
• 2020-04-06 149th British Open Men's Golf Championship is cancelled for the first time since WWII due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Royal St George's GC to host event in 2021

• 2021-07-21 Life expectancy in the US falls by 1.5 years (3 years for Hispanic Americans. 2.9 for Black Americans) in largest decline since WWII [1]

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