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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order commanding the relocation of Japanese Americans families from their homes and businesses to internment camps.
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Anne Frank and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an attic apartment behind her father's pectin-trading business in Amsterdam.
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The Manhattan Project, a U.S. federally-funded effort to develop and produce nuclear weapons, began
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Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died at his Warm Springs, Georgia estate. His vice president Harry S. Truman took office.
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Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech, condemning Soviet Union policies in Europe. Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War.
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Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established, an intergovernmental military alliance among 29 North American and European countries
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On this day in 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting the number of terms served by the President.