


Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad (1924)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca (1943)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation (2003)
b: Sharon Tate (1943), Gennifer Flowers (1950); d: Winston Churchill (1965), Herta Oberheuser (1978)

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