1920 – Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’arc) canonized a saint
1943 – Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs
1943 – Nazi troops quelled the monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Polish Jews, led by Mordecai Anielewicz and the Jewish Fighting Organization, resisted deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.
1944 – 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1975 – Tabei Junko of Japan, accompanied by Ang Tsering of Nepal, became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2013 – Human stem cells are successfully cloned
Births & Deaths: 1905 – American actor Henry Fonda, best known for cultivating a strong, appealing screen image in several films now considered to be classics, earning one Academy Award for Best Actor, was born.
Sport: 1948 – First chess world championship since WWII; Russian player Mikhail Botvinnik wins a 5-player tournament to begin 20-year Russian domination
Music: 1946 – “Annie Get Your Gun” musical by Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields opens at Imperial Theater NYC, starring Ethel Merman and featuring “There’s no Business Like Show Business”
TV & Film: 1929 – 1st Academy Awards: “Wings”, Emil Jannings & Janet Gaynor win
