Jewish commandos from the Irgun and Stern gang fail in an attempt to murder the British high commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael and Lady MacMichael in Jerusalem.

MacMichael is blamed for sending at least 768 Jewish refugees aboard MV Struma to their deaths.

Seven unsuccessful attempts, mainly by Lehi, have been undertaken to assassinate him during his sojourn in Palestine

In the last, both he and his wife narrowly escape death in an ambush Lehi mounted on August 8, 1944. on the eve of his replacement as High Commissioner.

Educated at Bedford School, MacMichael had graduated with a first from Magdalene College, Cambridge.

After passing his civil service exam, he entered the service of the British Empire in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

He then served in the Blue Nile province until 1915 when he became a senior inspector of Khartoum province, rising to the position of civil secretary in 1926.

In 1933 he became Governor of Tanganyika until 1937.

MacMichael also serves a stint as High Commissioner of Malta.