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Allan Boesak
1945Feb, 23

Allan Boesak

Allan Boesak, South African cleric and politician
Allan Aubrey Boesak (born 23 February 1946) is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was subsequently granted an official pardon and reinstated as a cleric in late 2004.

Along with Beyers Naudé and Winnie Mandela, Boesak won the 1985 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award given annually by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights to an individual or group whose courageous activism is at the heart of the human rights movement and in the spirit of Robert F. Kennedy's vision and legacy.

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  • 23Feb

    History of Poland (1939-45)

    World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
  • 25Feb

    Turkey

    World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
  • 9Mar

    Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.
  • 6Aug

    Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
  • 30Aug

    Douglas MacArthur

    The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.