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Jan 10th - 1st US president to visit a foreign country in wartime
President Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his flight to Morocco, the fisrt time a president has visited another country during wartime. -
"Your Hit Parade"
Frank Sinatra debuts his famous song "Your Hit Parade" on the radio -
Slinky invented
Richard James invented the slinky -
Silly putty invented
Silly putty was invented by James Wright -
Robert De Niro's Birth
Robert De Niro was born in New York City on this day, his parents were Virginia and Robert Sr. -
Aqualung invented
Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invent the aqualung. -
Germans close death camps
Nazi leaders decided to close the killing camps that were built specifically to exterminate Jews -
Batman and Robin premire
Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers -
Man survives free fall
Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives. -
Gandhi freed from prison
Mohtama Ghandi is freed from prison unconditionally for the first time -
Crematorium destroyed
Sonderkomnando blow up a crematorium in Auschwitz -
Chromatography Invented
Chromatography is invented by AJP. Martin and R.L.P Synge, enabling chemical anaylsis of insulin.
