Jews Shut Down, AK-47 Ramps Up, The New Economics

On this day: July 6

The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed (1939)

The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union (1947)

Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war (1967)

President B. Hussein Obama speaks at the graduation ceremony of the New Economic School in Moscow (2009)

b: Ernst Busch (1885), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), George W. Bush (1945); d: John Marshall (1835), Nestor Makhno (1934), János Kádár (1989)

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