On this day in history
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1457: The first book ever printed is published by a German astrologer named Faust.
1942: Dwight D. Eisenhower is named the Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.
1945: Japan announces its unconditional surrender in World War II.
1947: Pakistan becomes an independent country.
1969: British troops arrive in Northern Ireland in response to sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1973: The United States ends the “secret” bombing of Cambodia.
1995: Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet in the long history of South Carolina’s state military college, The Citadel.
2007: Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks in Yazidi towns near Mosul, Iraq, kill more than 400 people.
