…in History.
From the BBC Website:
On This Day
- 1942: The first ’selection’ for gassing takes place at the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female prime minister following a landslide election victory.
- 1980: Josip Broz Tito, whose rule had held the ethnic factions of Yugoslavia together since 1945, dies.
