Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Polish Jews, led by Mordecai Anielewicz and the Jewish Fighting Organization, resisted deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.More Events on this day:
1975: Tabei Junko of Japan, accompanied by Ang Tsering of Nepal, became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1961: The military seized power in South Korea, overthrowing the Second Republic, as General Park Chung Hee took over the government machinery, dissolved the National Assembly, and imposed a strict ban on political activity.
1920: Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, was canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV.
1763: In London, Samuel Johnson met James Boswell, who published his famous biography, Life of Johnson, in 1791.
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