1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1935 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft.
1941 Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine.
1941 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor.
1942 Nazis kill 12,000 Jews in the Minsk ghetto.
1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.
1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2012 Barack Obama re-elected as US President.
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