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1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.

1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain's Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.

1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.

1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.

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1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.

1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.

1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an early day motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.