TV actor Roger Rees

Events in 1944 and 5-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Roger Rees

• Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
• Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
• Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
• Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
• Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

Birthday Roger Rees (5-5) in history

• Day 5-5 year 1809: Mary Kies of South Killingly became the first woman to be granted a patent for the right to the technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
• Day 5-5 year 1821: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte passed away on the island of Saint Helena
• Day 5-5 year 1891: Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.
• Day 5-5 year 1925: John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism.
• Day 5-5 year 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
• Day 5-5 year 1981: Bobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.
• Day 5-5 year 2004: Pablo Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" became the most expensive painting ever sold.