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Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
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