1012 Timeline 2

1928: Boston Children's Hospital uses the iron lung, a medical respirator, for the first time to treat an 8-year-old girl paralyzed by polio. 1929: Sino-Soviet conflict: In the Battle of Tongjiang, the Soviet Red Navy heavily defeated the Chinese Ussuri River Flotilla and occupied Heixiazi Island. 1933: The U.S. Department of Justice acquires a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay and converts it into the final Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. 1951: Volume 1 of "Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung" is published. 1960: Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on the table during the 902nd UN General Assembly session to protest a speech criticizing Soviet control over Eastern Europe. 1960: Inejiro Asanuma, Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated with a wakizashi by Otoya Yamaguchi of the Great Japan Patriotic Party. 1968: Equatorial Guinea, formerly a Spanish overseas territory, declares independence from Spain. 1968: The 1968 Summer Olympics officially open in Mexico City, Mexico.