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The last rebel fleet sinks off Sicily
The Sicilian revolt against the Second Triumvirate ended when the fleet of Sextus Pompey was destroyed at the Battle of Naulochus. Sextus, the last surviving son of Pompey the Great, had used Sicily to threaten Rome's grain supply. His defeat removed the last organized resistance to the triumvirs who would soon reshape Rome into an empire.
The captain who won back the Ashes
In Reading, England, Percy Chapman was born into cricket. A dashing left-handed batsman, he captained England in the decisive fifth Test of the 1926 Ashes, leading his team to victory over Australia and reclaiming the urn for the first time since 1912. His cavalier batting style and charismatic leadership made him one of cricket's most colorful figures.
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland.
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek death camps in occupied Poland.