Remembering the Ellwood raid by Japan's I-17 crew
In a Tokyo interview Captain Nobukiyo Nambu recalls the February 1942 Ellwood Beach attack near Santa Barbara. The I 17 fired 20 shells and torpedoes at U S targets while pursuing American ships north of Hawaii and near San Francisco.
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Tokyo
Gny
Imperial Navy
U.S
Nobukiyo Nambu
Nambu
California
San Francisco
Japanese Naval Academy
Kwajelin
Marshall Islands
Hawaii
Kizo Nishino
Golden Gate
Santa Barbara
Ellwood
Southern Pacific
Washington, D. C
Franklin D. Rooseelt
Roosevelt
Pacific
Calif
1-17
Cape Mendocino
Yokosuka
Japan
New Caledonia
United States
Multiple Historic US and World Events Reported
Newton Minow resigns as FCC chief. Maj Gordon Cooper completes Faith 7 mission with 22 orbits and Pacific landing. U S suspends Haiti relations from Port au Prince. Kennedy visits Alabama supporting civil rights. Penkovsky executed in Moscow. Ernie Davis dies of leukemia at 23 in Cleveland. Caney Spots wins the Preakness in Baltimore. Supreme Court strikes down segregation laws at sit ins. African nations convene in Addis Ababa to form Organization of African States. Kennedy to visit Pope John XXIII in Italy in June.
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Newton Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Maj
Gordon Cooper
Faith
Earth
Pacific
U.S
Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Kennedy
Alabama
Oleg Penkovsky
Moscow
Leukemia
Grid
Ernie Davis
Cleveland
Caney Spots
Preakness
Baltimore
Supreme Court
Addis Ababa
Ethiopis
Organization of African States
Pope John XXIII
Italy
Austria to punish men who abandon pregnant women under new code
An Austrian commission unveils a modern penal code making a man liable to up to six months in prison for getting a girl into trouble and leaving her. New rules require financial and moral support during pregnancy with up to three years if the mother dies from neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Marie Zwerger
Vienna
Justice Ministry
Austria
Maria Theresa
Paul Hausner
De Gaulle Travels Like A Nation Wide Event
France's Charles de Gaulle insists on minimal disruption during visits to towns. A 50 member security corps, secret inquiries, and 24 hour guards ensure smooth movement with last minute changes possible. A sweeper train clears tracks and doctors accompany the escort for rapid response.
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Paris
Nea
France
Fifth Republic
Charles de Gaulle
George Parat
de Gaulle
Parat
Department
General de Gaulle
Elysee Palace
Wellington ombudsman Powles six months on job
Sir Guy Powles, first ombudsman in the British Commonwealth, has six months on the job in Wellington. Government press office records show 334 complaints received, with 143 outside jurisdiction dropped, 74 under review, 91 unfounded, 26 having substance and 13 corrected.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Guy Powles
One Million Political Prisoners Behind Walls
Amnesty International leads a drive to free prisoners of conscience and regulate treatment worldwide. Peter Benenson, founder, cites over a million held behind Iron Curtain borders, praising cases like Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi’s release after a high profile card campaign.
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Tom A. Cullen
London
NEA
Iron Curtain
Peter Benenson
Amnesty — International
Amnesty
Josyf Slipyi
Siberian
Vatican
Rome
Julian Grimau
Spain
Benenson
Grimau
Franco
Khrushchev
Europe
Greek Youth Leaves Poverty for New Home Abroad
In Lofiskos Greece a 17 year old girl Europe Papadopoulos leaves her 25 acre farm amid rising emigration from Greece. The piece details migration to Australia Canada and Latin America under ICEM and government programs as Greece seeks to address poverty and unemployment with skilled domestic work and international marriages.
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Lofiskos
Greece
Nea
Europe
Evropie
Dimitrios Papadopoulos
National Radical Union
Constantine Karamanlis
Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration
ICEM
Australia
Canada
Latin America
Econ
Papadopoulos
Charles Wendling
U.S
WHAT AND WHERE A News Game
A reader puzzle uses numbered spots on a map where recent news events occurred. Identify each event by its location, using the accompanying box to match place and incident. The activity tests memory and knowledge of where stories happened.
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Robert Eunson
Pershing Heights
Mark Clark
United Nations
Nobukiyo
U.S. West Coast
Hausner
Commission
Solar System
Vega
Rosette Hargrove
Constituent
THE
Viet Nam
Ghana
Africa
Accra
Kwame _ Nkrumah
Ammesty
Nkrumah
Giahnh
South
Slipyi
Amnesty International
Pope John
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