VE Day was declared a public holiday in Britain and was marked with jubilant scenes across the world, much as the end of the First World War had been met with cheers and dancing.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
United States Senator Joseph McCarthy was censured for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonour and disrepute.”
He likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one falls.
On the 3rd January 1961, the United States of America severed its diplomatic relationship with Cuba and closed the American embassy in Havana.
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