Buckingham Palace Bombed, Nikita Khrushchev, George Hardy Dead

On this day: September 13

German bombs damage Buckingham Palace (1940)

Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953)

Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact (1968)

b: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), Bettina Aptheker (1944); b: Stefano Delle Chiaie (1936); d: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1872), George Hardy (1990), Ann Richards (2006)

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