The vice president of Google, Susan Wojcicki, became the CEO of YouTube.
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Sweet rationing during World War II finally came to an end in Britain.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison after two years into his six-year sentence.
The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster killed twenty-three people.
The government executed a group of Japanese Catholic Christians (known as the 26 Martyrs) as they were deemed too dangerous to Japan's way of life.