Some few thousand prisoners too sick to walk remained at the camp and were found by arriving Soviet troops on this day in 1945.
In 2011, as part of the Arab Spring, the Yemen Uprising, where protesters demand the resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh political and economic reform.
In 1967, the U.S., U.K. and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty, banning the deployment of nuclear weapons in outer space and limiting the use of the Moon to peaceful purposes.
In 1944 Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, after a 872-day siege and over 1 million people dead.
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German concentration camp, Auschwitz I (the main camp), Poland (1940-1945). Visible old Austrian and later Polish Army barracks dated before 1939.