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Gov
Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation -
Meeting
Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war -
Football
Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach -
Allied
Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die -
Womans rights
International Women's Day is 1st observed -
Football
NFL requires players to wear long stockings -
Gov
US Marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa -
Government
24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany -
Jackie Robinson
signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history -
Gov
8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000 -
Chuck Cooper
1st negro player in NBA -
Roe vs. Wade
Aborition Legal -
US
President Nixon Resigns -
US
Official End of the Cold War